Morocco Bound: Adrift Among Books
by Mitchell, Edwin Valentine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner name on front free endpaper.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner name on front free . endpaper.. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Red basket-weave cloth stamped in blind on front covers and in gilt on spine. Many illustrations. xiv, 232 pp. A memoir by the Hartford, Connecticut bookseller about his bookshop on Lewis Street, his customers, book collecting, biblioklepts, and print collecting. Nice photo of Sinclair Lewis reading in Mitchell's shop, and other nice book illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56495
- Title
- Morocco Bound: Adrift Among Books
- Author
- Mitchell, Edwin Valentine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner name on front free endpaper.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bookstores, Bookseller Memoirs, Book Collecting, BOOKS ABOUT Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books about Books;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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