THE AMERICAN LEONARDO: A LIFE OF SAMUEL F. B. MORSE
by Mabee, Carleton
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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CARLSBAD , California, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1990. Collector's Edition. The Library of Great Lives. Handsomely bound in luxurious warm brown full premium leather. Elaborate gold embossed decorations, raised spine bands, lustrous gold silk moire fabric endpapers, all page edges gilt, and permanently bound-in ribbon page marker. Printed on fine archival acid-neutral paper. With a Foreward by Reynold M. Wik and Introduction by Allan Nevins. Color frontispiece portrait of Morse. With publisher's card laid in. Appears unread. . Full-Leather. Fine.
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- Bookseller
- RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12335
- Title
- THE AMERICAN LEONARDO: A LIFE OF SAMUEL F. B. MORSE
- Author
- Mabee, Carleton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- FINE PRESS BINDING
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