First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book-Lovers -- Signed Limited Edition
by Stone, Herbert Stuart
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus
- Seller
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Sacramento, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. No. 37 of a Limited Edition of 50 copies SIGNED by Stone and Kimball on the limitation page. Introduction by Eugene Field. Very good plus in grey boards with light rubbing to extremities; clear archival tape repair to inside edge of first two pages, otherwise clean and tight. Bookplate on front pastedown of Charles Lemuel Nichols, who wrote bibliographies and books on prinitng in the early 1900s. Not only was the the first hardcover book published by Stone & Kimball, it was also the first published bibliography of first editions of only American authors and is significant thus.
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- Bookseller
- Magus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8321
- Title
- First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book-Lovers -- Signed Limited Edition
- Author
- Stone, Herbert Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Stone & Kimball
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1893
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- Bookplate
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.