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Early Italian Writing Books Renaissance to Baroque
by Stanley Morison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0879238801
- ISBN 13
- 9780879238803
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: David R. Godine. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1990. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0879238801 . Near fine with near fine dustjacket. Printed for the Members of Hoc Volo. Clean paper dust jacket over brown cloth covered boards, gold gilt hand with a quill on front. Gold gilt lettering on spine. No shelf wear at all. Text block immaculate. Appears to be unread. 21 plates, one is fold-out. A fine copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7930
- Title
- Early Italian Writing Books Renaissance to Baroque
- Author
- Stanley Morison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0879238801
- ISBN 13
- 9780879238803
- Publisher
- David R. Godine
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0879238801
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Old Editions Inc.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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.
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