Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo,
CARMARTHESHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
$76.58
Edition:
Hardcover
Details:
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16634367449
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Seller's Description:
Reader copy. Ex library hardback with original blue boards & gilt finishings. No D/J, usual stamps/markings. 1957 2nd edition revised & enlarged published by the Cresset Press with 611pp & 317 illustrations-all intact & free from markings. Boards/spine are worn/faded with some corner bumping, page edges are tanned/little grubby. Binding is open in a couple of places but intact. Textblock is clean. Heavy book-1.6kgs-will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 23G*
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (papermaking, watermarks, history) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Size: 9x6x1; Second edition, 1947, revised and enlarged. Blue cloth embossed hardcover without jacket. Top edge violet, other edges with evident foxing; foxing on first and last several pages. Text unmarked, gentle wear. Foldouts in very good condition.
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Seller's Description:
Good. First edition. 398. xxiii pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs, with fold-out map. Scattered foxing on pages, foxing on boards and page edges, darkened spine, good only, lacking the dust jacket.
Edition:
Second Edition Revised & Enlarged and Printed from New Plates
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Published:
1947
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17737521855
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Seller's Description:
Good Plus. Quarto. Blue buckram-covered boards. Every historical/cultural aspect of creation of paper is meticulously covered and illustrated in this now-classic volume: 317 illustrations, plus a tipped-in map at the rear. Publisher's red topstain, and a wee bit of light spotting to edges. Solidly bound. For more than forty years (previous to the 1947 of this edition) the author has been "assembling material relating to the ancient craft of papermaking...[he writes, further]: "My researches have taken me to all parts of the world, travelling hundreds of thousands of miles in this elusive study...". "Rags Make Paper Paper Makes Money Money Makes Banks Banks Make loans, Loans. Make Beggars, Beggars Make Rags (Author Unknown, circa Eighteenth century).
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Seller's Description:
Near fine. 315 illustrations, folding map, 611 + xxxiii pp., tall 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Knopf, 1947. The first of Hunter's books to be published in a commercial edition, but containing "a selection of material from the expensive editions, " and aimed at giving "accomplished bibliophiles and amateur booklovers an insight into the methods employed by the makers of paper in all parts of the world and from all periods...to instruct papermakers, workers in watermarking, etchers, engravers, printers, book binders, paper salesmen, and all users of paper." Second Edition, revised & enlarged.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Turquoise cloth boards with blue decoration on cover, blue lettering and decoration on spine. No fraying or wear. Slightest hint of fading to upper and lower board edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with small previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper. Foreword by the author. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, fold-out map in perfect condition. 398 pages + 23 page index. Dust jacket is not price clipped (4.50 on front inside flap), has one 3" crooked tear at spine fold, a few very tiny edge chips, slight age-toning. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Seller's Description:
Small 4to. Blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxiv, 611pp, xxxvii. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, foldout diagram, foldout map. Very good. Tight, quite handsome of the revised and enlarged second edition of the 1943 classic--an exhaustively thorough resource.
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Illustrated. Very Good. Book. 8vo. New York: Dover, 1978. Unabridged reprint of the second edition published by Knopf in 1947. 8vo. Leatherette binding, 611, xxxvii pp. plus catalogue Scuffing to boards. Very good.
