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Lydia Bailey
by Roberts, Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Levittown, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. Special Limited Edition, this is number 524 of 1050 copies, signed by the author of the Limitation Page. Buckham cloth boards, beveled foredges, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. in publisher's slipcase. Color frontispiece. map endpapers. Book's front cover with spot of light soiling, and a tiny dot-stain to spine gutter, else crisp, clean and near fine in about very good, edgeworn slipcase.. Signed. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albert Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005358
- Title
- Lydia Bailey
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (stated)
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED; IMAGE SCAN; Limited Edition;
Terms of Sale
Albert Books
All books are guaranteed as described and may be returned for any reason. Note: all returns should be fully insured. New York residents will be asked for sales tax.
About the Seller
Albert Books
Biblio member since 2004
Levittown, New York
About Albert Books
Here at Albert Books we have been collecting and selling fine literature for over forty years. We now offer a portion of our collection of approximately 10,000 books to you, online, at reasonable prices. Our specialties include first editions of American and English literature, including Poetry, Theater & Plays, Limited Editions Club Books, and some Mystery & Science Fiction. We also feature a rather large and varied selection of Literature in Translation.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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