Three Frontiers: Memories, and a Portrait of Henry Littleton Pitzer
by Pitzer, Robert Claiborne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1938. Memoirs of a pioneer family's move from Iowa to Denver in the 1850's; and beyond. Early work from designer and printer Carroll Coleman, who later published Wallace Stegner, August Derleth, and Wendell Berry, among others. One of 550 printed. Hardcover, full navy buckram, two-color printed spine label. Light edge and corner wear, spine label a bit browned, rear cover lightly waterstained; no jacket, likely as issued. Text clean; 242 pages + colophon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bunn, William E. L.. 6¼" by 9¼".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u1424
- Title
- Three Frontiers: Memories, and a Portrait of Henry Littleton Pitzer
- Author
- Pitzer, Robert Claiborne
- Illustrator
- Bunn, William E. L.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prairie Press
- Place of Publication
- Muscatine, IA
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Fine Printing, Americana
- Size
- 6¼" by 9¼"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...