A CLASSIFIED LIST OF EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL STYLES AND A NOTE AS TO THE PROMINENT ENGRAVERS
by ALLEN, Charles Dexter
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Grolier Club, 1894. Bound in original tan wraps, that show some soiling and a nickel-sized hole to back panel. Some early (19th Century?) water damage to last few pages. Still acceptable and priced at about 25% of the going price. 38 pp. / 21 un-numbered leaves of plates. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good +/No Jacket.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59006008
- Title
- A CLASSIFIED LIST OF EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL STYLES AND A NOTE AS TO THE PROMINENT ENGRAVERS
- Author
- ALLEN, Charles Dexter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grolier Club
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Book-plates
Terms of Sale
abookshop
All books are fully guaranteed and returnable for any or no reason within 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
abookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Springtown, Pennsylvania
About abookshop
We have been selling books of note (especially literary first editions, poetry and drama) for over 20 years.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...