Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839-1889
by Taft, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Green buckram, lettered in gilt. Covers tanned toward and along edges, otherwise only minor shelf wear. Text block edges a bit dulled by age, endpapers toned along hinges. Former owner's signature inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Text portions of both DJ flaps tipped in on rear fixed endpaper, DJ otherwise lacking. Stated 1st ed. xi,546 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographic plates..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049138
- Title
- Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839-1889
- Author
- Taft, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...