Author: DONALDSON, GERALD
Title: Books: Their History, Art, Power, Glory, Infamy and Suffering According to Their Creators, Friends and Enemies
Description: New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981. 0442219016. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0442219016. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W and color drawings and reproductions. An informative, lighthearted tribute to books provides a host of trivia, anecdotes, and facts about bookselling, binding, literary figures, rarities, and other miscellaneous data about the history, art, and power of the book. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, spine sunned, tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel. FINE/VERY GOOD+. Color and B&W Drawings. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 128 pp. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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