Fine Books
by Pollard, Alfred W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XV, 331pp. Uncut and partly unopened copy! Original blind-stamped red cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Ex-libris of Lucy Smith Battson (ex Lucy Doheny) on free front endpaper. Frontispiece with tissue-guard. Illustrated title-page. This fascinating work displays the finest and rarest books ever published, and is profusely illustrated with 40 b/w plates (including Frontispiece). Minor edge wear on spine edges. Upper corner of front board slightly bumped. Hinges starting. Binding in overall good+ to very good, interior in near fine condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23632
- Title
- Fine Books
- Author
- Pollard, Alfred W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Reference, Early books, incunables, History of books, Lucy Doheny
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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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