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The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts
by Veblen, Thorstein
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding, ruled at the edges, with titling in gilt on the spine.Clean text; ix, 355 pages; four-page catalog in the rear. Top edge is gilt, fore edge deckled. Previous-owner signature (1972) on the FFEP; front gutter is cracked but holding. Rubbed at the margins; gilt on spine is dulled but perfectly readable. A bit loose in feel, but a serviceable copy nonetheless. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005865
- Title
- The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts
- Author
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Economics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Edges
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- Cracked
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- Gutter
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fore Edge
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- 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...
- Cloth
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