This Book-Collecting Game
by Newton, A. Edward
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Sebastopol, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1928; First Edition, Second printing [5.75x8.25"]; Light blue paper covers with dark blue half cloth, five ribbed spine with dark blue lettering on cream paper label, top edge gilt, others uncut; Cream dust jacket with black lettering on front and spine, color caricature on front, advertisements on rear; [11], 410 pp., frontispiece color illustration of horse and rider, 133 illustrations in text and plates; Shelf wear to bottom edge and corners bumped; Some shelf wear and age soiling to dust jacket with small chips and closed tears to top and bottom of spine with old tape repairs, larger triangle chip to top edge of front near spine, spine darken and soiled. Overall in Very Good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11753
- Title
- This Book-Collecting Game
- Author
- Newton, A. Edward
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- This & That;
Terms of Sale
David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA
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About the Seller
David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Sebastopol, California
About David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA
David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA is an online bookseller specializing in fine books, maps, publications, and ephemera related to Exploration, Adventure and World History with a focus on the Polar Regions, California and the American West. A particular interest is in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration from 1895 to 1920's. Other areas of interest are in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and a little bit of this and that.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.