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The Building of the City Beautiful.
by Miller, Joaquin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Mass: Stone & Kimball, 1893.. 12mo. 196 pp. Very Good, Charcoal Grey Decorative Cloth with damp stains, edge wear, & rubbing; underlines & notes inked throughout; shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle. Previous owner's signature on FFEP with another's bookplate facing on ep. Mylar Jacket. First Edition, one of 500 copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15-3920
- Title
- The Building of the City Beautiful.
- Author
- Miller, Joaquin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass: Stone & Kimball, 1893.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Linguistics;
Terms of Sale
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Payment by credit cards or other means. 20% charge for returns,unless item is misdescribed.
About the Seller
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Biblio member since 2006
San Francisco, California
About Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...