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The Building of The City Beautiful
by MILLER, Joaquin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Trenton, New Jersey: Albert Brandt, 1905. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy of the book and very good proof copy of the frontispiece plate printed on a thick wove paper sheet (8" x 12"). Revised edition. 12mo. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece plate printed on parchment paper. Publisher's dark red decorative cloth stamped in gold on both covers and the spine, gilt top. A handsome copy designed and printed by Albert Brandt, an independent publisher and printer from Trenton, New Jersey. Accompanying the book is the publisher's proof copy of the frontispiece plate: a portrait of Miller and his mother ("Mother and her boy").
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 388471
- Title
- The Building of The City Beautiful
- Author
- MILLER, Joaquin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Albert Brandt
- Place of Publication
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- AmerLit19thCent, Biography, Religion, Philosophy, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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