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Notes on My Books
by Conrad, Joseph
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- White parchment boards with gilt ship illustration and titles on front cover and spine; gilt rules, and smart looking blue strip
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition, limited 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is 221. 111 pp. 8vo. White parchment boards with gilt ship illustration and titles on front cover and spine; gilt rules, and smart looking blue stripe on front and rear and blue tips on corners, previous owner's bookplate pasted down on fep, else fine in glassine dust jacket beneath a simple blue dust jacket with blue title and illustration on head of spine. Signed and numbered by Conrad on limitation page. Housed in green cloth shell that has previous owner's bookplate on inside cover and gilt title on spine; overall a near fine copy. First edition, limited 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is 221. 111 pp. 8vo. SIGNED and numbered edition. Supino B3.3.0
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 346952
- Title
- Notes on My Books
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- 111 pp. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - White parchment boards with gilt ship illustration and titles on front cover and spine; gilt rules, and smart looking blue strip
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited 250 signed and numbered copies, of which
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- British | Joseph Conrad
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
James Cummins Bookseller
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- 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....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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