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Millennium 1
by DWIGGINS, W. A. [William Addison]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. W. A. Dwiggins. 12mo. Pp. 100. Illustrated with eight leaves of Dwiggins block prints in blue printed recto. Light blue cloth. Titles, illustration and decorations printed in brown on the cover and spine. Top edge dyed brown. Book design by Dwiggins, set in his Linotype Electra. Edges rubbed, light specks to front cover. Edges and endpapers lightly age toned. Jacket edges a tad rubbed, top edge with short closed tears. The renowned type- and book-designer's stage melodrama on the rebellion of humans against tyrannous thinking machines. Published in reduced format under wartime paper restrictions, as explained on the jacket by Knopf. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5809
- Title
- Millennium 1
- Author
- DWIGGINS, W. A. [William Addison]
- Illustrator
- W. A. Dwiggins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- mid-century modern mcm mcmm
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- 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...
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