Bob The Binder's Progress. WITH SIGNED PUBLISHER'S INSERT.
by GOODGER, F. The Grange Fibre Company
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1955. The Grange Fibre C. Ltd. Leicester. 1955. First edition. Slim landscape 8vo. Bound in decorated and blocked Linson Vellum (which is made by this company) by Torriani of Milan. Linson Vellum was a strong and well-made art-vellum produced in Leicester. This book is an attractively produced volume reproducing the much admired "Bob the Binder" advertisements for Linson products in the 1950s. With a signed slip by Goodger giving details of the binding laid in. Endpapers decorated with a butterfly pattern by John Buckland Wright. Sl. mottling along top and bottom edges o/w near fine in original rexine cover which is partially split along spine but sound.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71201
- Title
- Bob The Binder's Progress. WITH SIGNED PUBLISHER'S INSERT.
- Author
- GOODGER, F. The Grange Fibre Company
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- REFERENCE and BIBLIOGRAPHY books on books
- Bookseller catalogs
- REFERENCE and BIBLIOGRAPHY;
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About the Seller
Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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- Vellum
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- SL.
- slight
- Edges
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- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise