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ORCUTT, William Dana - In Quest of the Perfect Book

Title: In Quest of the Perfect Book
Description: Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and extensive rules, pictorial dust jacket. 316pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, numerous full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Exceptionally tight 'n' bright first trade edition -- with usually-absent jacket not only present but quite nice. An unusually fresh copy. Orcutt (1870-1953) was the noted author of such bibliophilic classics as "The Magic of the Book: More Reminiscences and Adventures of a Bookman" (1930), "From My Library Walls" (1945), "The Kingdom of Books" (1927), "Celebrities Off Parade" (1935) and similar bookish tomes. .

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Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 44158

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