Cleveland, OH: Press of Western Reserve University, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Buckram. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green buckram, lettered and with front panel device in gilt on black field. Buckram is slightly spotted and a bit rubbed at spine extremities, else nearly as issued. [vi],86 pp. Illus. tan paper dust jacket shows light soiling and shelf wear, lacks approx. 30% of spine panel from silverfishing, also minor loss from same along top edges of both flaps, now in archival mylar..

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Bookseller: Saucony Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BIBL0231
Title: Newton D. Baker and his Books
Author: Thornton, Willis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Press of Western Reserve University
Place of Publication: Cleveland, OH
Date Published: 1954
Bookseller catalogs: Bibliography, Books on Books, Printing;
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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Saucony Book Shop

Terms of Sale: All orders are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Full refund on any misrepresented item(s) within 30 days of purchase date. Returned books must arrive in the same condition as they were sent. We use standard ABAA grading and terminology, and we will gladly respond to pre-purchase queries. Payment: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, check, money order, cash. Happy hunting!

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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

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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...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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...
Device: Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...