New York: R. R. Bowker Company, c1942, 1949. Fourth Edition Pocket Size Edition. Third Printing Fine in red-brown, full, pebbled, leather like cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A 16mo of 7 by 4 1/2 inches with no flaws with a prior owner's name written in pencil on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. Laid-in at the front of the book is a prospectus advertising this title. 553 pages of text. Revised and enlarge by Jacob Blanck. Containing check lists for 188 American authors with over 10,000 descriptive entries all printed on "bible-thin" paper in a pocket sized format.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB32386
Title: Merle Johnson's American First Editions
Author: Johnson, Merle
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Fourth Edition Pocket Size Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: R. R. Bowker Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: c1942, 1949
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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...
Pebbled: Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Laid-in: "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...