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A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999
by HUTNER, Martin, and Jerry KELLY
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0910672288
- ISBN 13
- 9780910672283
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
From an edition limited to 1000 copies, 250 case bound, printed at the Stinehour Press. Dark blue cloth with spine and upper board lettering gilt, quarto, pp. xxx + [ii] + 110. Grolier Club exhibition catalogue of 100 finely printed books produced during the 20th century and arranged here chronologically. Very Good with mild bumping to bottom tips and random light shelf and handling scuffs to cloth. No dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3059
- Title
- A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999
- Author
- HUTNER, Martin, and Jerry KELLY
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0910672288
- ISBN 13
- 9780910672283
- Publisher
- The Grolier Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography/Reference;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Case bound
- A hardcover book where the entire textblock is bound separately from the covers by means of either glue or stitching. The pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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