Pages, Pictures and Print: A Book in the Making
by Foster, Joanna
- Used
- first
- Condition
- good: ex library copy--bookplate on front paste down, blind stamp on title page, some markings on endpapers and title pages. tap/good: library sticker on spine, edgewear, closed tear along top of spine, NOT clipped ($2.95)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1958. first edition. hardcover. good: ex library copy--bookplate on front paste down, blind stamp on title page, some markings on endpapers and title pages. tape on boards from formerly attached DJ/good: library sticker on spine, edgewear, closed tear along top of spine, NOT clipped ($2.95). Joanna Foster. 8vo 96pp. from front flap: "In this vivid and absorbing account the reader follows a manuscript on its intricate journey in becomeing a book: first to the editor in a publishing house, then through its revisions to final form, and on to the designers and production staff who plan its manufacture. The artist's studio where the illustrations are made, the printing plant, the bindery--all these, too, are visited..." #00786.
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Details
- Seller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 703
- Title
- Pages, Pictures and Print
- Author
- Foster, Joanna
- Illustrator
- Joanna Foster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good: ex library copy--bookplate on front paste down, blind stamp on title page, some markings on endpapers and title pages. tap
- Jacket Condition
- good: library sticker on spine, edgewear, closed tear along top of spine, NOT clipped ($2.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- books on books, publishing, nonfiction, first edition
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
Biblio member since 2023
Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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