A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY Adventures with Books and Manuscripts
Rosenbach, A. S. W. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,...Date published: 1936Format: Hardcover
Hardcover; 8vo; 259 pages. First trade edition. Beige cloth with gilt titles on red labels on cover and spine. Sunned/spotted spine. Rubbed/scuffed. Bookplate on fep, name on ffep. Yellowing but bright, tight, and clean interior. VG/--
A Book Hunter's Holiday. Adventures with Books and Manuscripts
ROSENBACH, A. S. W. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin...Date published: 1936Format: Hardcover
First Trade Edition (1936 on title page and copyright page with no later date).Very good hardcover book (no DJ). Beige cloth with gilt titles on red labels. Browning to endpapers and spine. Pages and text bright clear.Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No highlighting// Not remainder marked // Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club. Shelf247
1st. ed. fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Book Hunter's Holiday. Adventures With Books and Manuscripts
ROSENBACH, A.S.W. Format: Hardcover
ROSENBACH, A.S.W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Adventures With Books and Manuscripts. Original buckram. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First edition. Limited to 760 copies. Fine.
Signed, limited edition of this entertaining and important work from one of the towering figures in the 20th century American rare book world. 4to, 259pp. Illustrations, facsimiles. Black cloth, beveled edges, red labels on spine and upper board, lettered in gilt. Signed by Rosenbach on the limitation page. Bookplate of California publisher and rare book collector, Joshua Stewart Odell to front pastedown. Nearly fine with light toning and rubbing to spine in very good red slipcase that shows wear and soiling First edition, limited to 760 signed copies, this being #408.
Fine Copy In a Very Good Jacket. First Edition 1936. Signed Presentation Copy in Year of Publication. For Fred G. Moore with best wishes of A.S.W. Rosenbach. Dec 19, 1936." Very Rare Inscribed Excellent Condition. Sharp.
Fine Copy In a Very Good Jacket. First Edition 1936. Signed Presentation Copy in Year of Publication. For Fred G. Moore with best wishes of A.S.W. Rosenbach. Dec 19, 1936." Very Rare Inscribed Excellent Condition. Sharp.
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