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The Book of Ruth with Pictures by Arthur Szyk
by Bible (Arthur Szyk, illus)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Heritage Press, 1947. First edition. Hard cover in glassine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1947. 4to., 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 44pp., illustrated with full color tipped in plates by Arthur Szyk. Cream cloth with gilt reverse spine title, brown cover pictorial. Two color title page and chapter heads, recto printed on smooth cream parchment. Some darkening to the cloth along edges, else very good in scarce, very good glassine dust jacket creased on the panels. In very good slipcase. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009925
- Title
- The Book of Ruth with Pictures by Arthur Szyk
- Author
- Bible (Arthur Szyk, illus)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions; Religion;
Terms of Sale
The Wild Muse
Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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