Word Shadows of the Great: the Lure of Autograph Collecting
by Madigan, Thomas F
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing.. Brown cloth boards with decorative scroll title box in cream and gold on cover, gold lettering on spine. Small bump to one corner tip. Hint of very light soiling to cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean decorated endpapers. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece features hand-written manuscript of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with clean tissue guard. Illustrated with plates. 300 pages with index..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31667
- Title
- Word Shadows of the Great: the Lure of Autograph Collecting
- Author
- Madigan, Thomas F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing.
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- COLLECTING AUTOGRAPHS, AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING, SIGNATURES, THOMAS F. MADIGAN
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.