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The Way to Wealth (The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders)
by Franklin, Benjamin and Phillips Russell (essay)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. First edition thus, limited. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Typographic paper-covered boards with spine label. Covers toned. Red pen mark to upper cover. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers, slightly sun-darkened edges. Soiled topedge of textblock. Foxed endpapers & first/last leaves, pages toned. Color frontis with tissue, colored borders throughout. Cardboard slipcase with paper labels: soiled, dampstains, cracks to spine extremes & head joints. Designed & illustrated by Vojtéch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 344 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 2 from the New Fine Book Series.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3446
- Title
- The Way to Wealth (The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders)
- Author
- Franklin, Benjamin and Phillips Russell (essay)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus, limited
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
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About the Seller
Downtown Books & News
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About Downtown Books & News
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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