The Brothers Harper A Unique Publishing Partnership and its Impact on the Cultural Life of America from 1817 to 1853
by Exman, Eugene
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, tape glue remnants on FFEP and BFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Stated first edition. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 415 pages; An excellent history of the formative years of one of the major American publishers, who introduced some important authors of American literature to the world. .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21329
- Title
- The Brothers Harper A Unique Publishing Partnership and its Impact on the Cultural Life of America from 1817 to 1853
- Author
- Exman, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- herman melville, Thoreau, nathaniel hawthorne
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business; LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...