THE KELMSCOTT PRESS AND WILLIAM MORRIS MASTER-CRAFTSMAN
by Sparling, H. Halliday 07d
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book. 1st ed. Paper title label tipped in @ book's end.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan. FINE book. 1st ed. Paper title label tipped in @ book's end.. 1924. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book. REBOUND, closely matching the original BUT: title stamped in gilt directly on spine, rather than on a paper label. . 9"x6", ix,177,2pp. A fine rebind but no binder's ticket. Two types of very minor flaws. (1) the first & last 2 original leaves are faintly aged, (2) the fore & bottom margins of the last 3 original leaves faintly damp stained. (3) Ink of laid in inked note has transferred to p 32. Note bo longer there. (4) Few foxed spots on scatttered leaves. FLAWLESS BOOK otherwise. It stays closed when stood on its spine. All three deckle edges white as new. COMES WITH a 68p exhibition catalog "William Morris and the Kelmscott Press". A 1994 U of Scranton exhibit of 122 items of the Walsdorf Morris collection. The photo of this catalog is taken against the backdrop of the tipped in, extra, title paper label. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001456
- Title
- THE KELMSCOTT PRESS AND WILLIAM MORRIS MASTER-CRAFTSMAN
- Author
- Sparling, H. Halliday 07d
- Illustrator
- 16 plates.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE book. 1st ed. Paper title label tipped in @ book's end.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- FINE book. REBOUND, closely matching the original BUT: title stamped, in gilt directly on spine, rather than on a paper label.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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