A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting (1663-1940)
by Bennett, Whitman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1941. Limited first edition. Very good+ in tan cloth covered boards with an errata slip pasted to the front end paper & light wear to the spine ends. Without a dust jacket. One of only 1,250 copies published. "With all items arranged in sequence as a Chronological Panorama of American Authorship and with each subject considered from Bibliographical, Biographical and Analytical Aspects." 254 pages with index and text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB10062
- Title
- A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting (1663-1940)
- Author
- Bennett, Whitman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bennett Book Studios
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
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Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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- 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.
- 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....
- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...