PRACTICAL TALKS BY AN ASTRONOMER.
by Jacoby, Harold. (Rome Richardson cover design)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner names to front endpapers, top edge dusty, else about fine
- Seller
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Early reprint (first edition was 1902). Hardcover. Previous owner names to front endpapers, top edge dusty, else about fine. xi, 235 pp., 8 plates from photographs; octavo, decorative dark blue cloth with cover design in gilt and olive green.
Handsome cover design by former Decorative Designers employee Rome Richardson. Richardson left DD in 1902. His independent work bears his own "RR" monogram.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21695
- Title
- PRACTICAL TALKS BY AN ASTRONOMER.
- Author
- Jacoby, Harold. (Rome Richardson cover design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner names to front endpapers, top edge dusty, else about fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early reprint (first edition was 1902)
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1913
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