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Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments: Cylinder Music Boxes, Disc Music Boxes, Piano Players and Player Pianos, Coin-operated Pianos, Orchestrions, Photoplayers, Organettes, Fairground Organs, Calliopes and Other Self-Playing Musical Instruments..
by Bowers, Q. David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0911572082
- ISBN 13
- 9780911572087
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover; Second Printing. Rust cloth binding rubbed at spine ends & corners; leaf edges, outer leaves lightly foxed. Dust jacket rubbed at extremities; edges chipped; surface browned, now protected in clear mylar cover.; Profuse black & white photos and ad cuts; front free endpaper inscribed & signed by author; top corner of first two front endpapers imprinted with author's "Mekanisk Musik Museum' stamp.; 4to; 1008 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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- 53896
- Title
- Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments: Cylinder Music Boxes, Disc Music Boxes, Piano Players and Player Pianos, Coin-operated Pianos, Orchestrions, Photoplayers, Organettes, Fairground Organs, Calliopes and Other Self-Playing Musical Instruments..
- Author
- Bowers, Q. David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; Second Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0911572082
- ISBN 13
- 9780911572087
- Publisher
- The Vestal Press
- Place of Publication
- Vestal, NY
- Date Published
- 1972
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- Inscribed
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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