Selected Essays on the History of Letterforms in Manuscript and Print
by Stanley Morison
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0521223385
- ISBN 13
- 9780521223386
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Books fine, free of all markings, in near fine dustjackets. One jacket has a tiny closed nick, nearly invisible in the protective mylar wrap. Matching burgandy cloth clipcase for the set with a paper label on the spine. Slipcase is near fine with minor shelf wear only. Lovely set. 1981. 2 vols, cloth, 4to, 31 cm, xxii, 294 + xiii, 295-416, [1] pp, 126 pp of plates, ills, facs.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Sky Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4035
- Title
- Selected Essays on the History of Letterforms in Manuscript and Print
- Author
- Stanley Morison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0521223385
- ISBN 13
- 9780521223386
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1981
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