Adventures in Americana: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass
by SKIFF, Frederick Woodward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, Publishers, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine with paper label and green textured paper over boards. 366pp. Frontispiece, drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. First edition, with colophon statement tipped to inner flyleaf noting limitation of 800 numbered copies (this #488) signed boldly in full by Skiff in brown ink. The pioneering Pacific Northwest collector's quest for antiques of all types -- Colonial furniture, inscribed first editions, Indian rugs -- will stir the blood of any collector.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45813
- Title
- Adventures in Americana: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass
- Author
- SKIFF, Frederick Woodward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Press, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Portland, OR
- Date Published
- 1935
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Colophon
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- Fine
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