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Three Fragments from the Posthumous Papers of Conrad Fiedler MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXCV
by Fiedler, Konrad
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About This Item
Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. Hammer, Victor. Octavo, 182pp. One of 152 unnumbered copies printed by Carolyn Reading in black and red American Uncial type on Japanese Hosho paper. Translated from the German by Victor Hammer and Thornton Sinclair with an introduction by Hammer. Autograph note from Hammer to Florentine scholar Ulrich Middeldorf laid in. Middeldorf's copy with his bookplate and a small note in pencil on the front paste-down. Scattered foxing to leaves and boards, spine sunned, fore-corners bumped. Prospectus bound in. (Holbrook, p.42).
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- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21784
- Title
- Three Fragments from the Posthumous Papers of Conrad Fiedler MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXCV
- Author
- Fiedler, Konrad
- Illustrator
- Hammer, Victor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Stamperia del Santuccio
- Place of Publication
- Lexington, KY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Printing;
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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