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Item Details

Description

Heading: (Bird & Bull Press)
Author: Middleton, Bernard
Title: Recollections. My Life in Bookbinding
Place Published: Newtown, PA
Publisher:Bird & Bull Press
Date Published: 1995
Description:

Illustrated, including color plates. Foreword by Dr. Marianne Tidcombe. (8vo) morocco-backed boards, two-tone cloth slipcase. Copy 'HM' of 200 copies.

Signed by the author on the title page above his printed name. Presumably Henry Morris' personal copy.

Condition

Volume spine lightly sunned; near fine in like slipcase.

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Recollections. My Life in Bookbinding

Name: Recollections. My Life in Bookbinding
SKU: 110736989
Price: 180 USD
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