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The William Morris Book (with Dustwrapper)
by Hubbard, Elbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About near Fine/About Very Good
- Seller
-
Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
€368.85€331.97
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1907. First Edition . Quarter Suede and Boards. About near Fine/About Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1907. First Edition. Octavo, 69 pp. Quarter suede with buff boards; rare dustjacket is lettered and designed in green and red. Untrimmed pages. Apparently one blank flyleaf has been excised (there are three blank leaves prior to the frontis), else a Near Fine book, with page edge darkening only, in an About Very Good dustjacket which is with several chips and some staining, split at spine. Brown bookmark ribbon still in good order. Another one of Elbert Hubbard's unique sorties, "being a little journey by Elbert Hubbard, & some letters, heretofore unpublished, written to his friend & fellow worker, Robert Thomson, all throwing a side-light, more or less, on the man and his times. Scarce in the jacket. L-36 n
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000518
- Title
- The William Morris Book (with Dustwrapper)
- Author
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Format/Binding
- Quarter Suede and Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - About near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- About Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- East Aurora, NY
- Date Published
- 1907
- Pages
- 69
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- first edition, roycrofters, Elbert hubbard, Antiquarian, Americana Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Singular: Without A Category;
Terms of Sale
Singularity Rare & Fine
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
About Singularity Rare & Fine
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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