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Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880, a Descriptive Bibliography
by King, Edmund M. B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine-/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0712347232
- ISBN 13
- 9780712347235
- Seller
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Prescott, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. Book. Fine-. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize dark-blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and minimal decorations to spine and front; no jacket; pale-yellow endpapers; 324 pages; color and b&w illustrations; new plastic protective jacket. Fine minus condition: small dark scuff to bottom edge of text bock--about the diameter of a pencil eraser; erasures to ffep; otherwise like new..
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- Bookseller
- The Old Sage Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130955
- Title
- Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880, a Descriptive Bibliography
- Author
- King, Edmund M. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0712347232
- ISBN 13
- 9780712347235
- Publisher
- The British Library and Oak Knoll Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- books bookbinding book great britain 19th century history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliophilia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Sage Bookshop
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Prescott, Arizona
About The Old Sage Bookshop
Situated in historic downtown Prescott, Arizona, The Old Sage Bookshop offers a fine selection of new southwest books as well as quality used books for the collector, the seeker, and the avid reader. This is a small but mighty bookshop.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- New
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