Scarce first American edition. Decorated American trade binding. Burgundy cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Two tiny spots of wear at top spine edge; white numbers at lower edge of spine, but NOT an ex library. Small Philadelphia bookseller's ticket at lower edge of front pastedown. Binding is tight and square, gilt top page edges. Frontispiece illustration "The Reader" with tissue guard. Pages mostly clean -- a few have light foxing. 136 pages with Index.
Title: Saunterings in Bookland with Gleanings By the Way
Edition: First American Edition, First printing
Location Published: New York, Truslove Hanson & Comba Ltd.: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Type: Book
Categories: Books on Books/publishing, Decorated American Trade Binding, DATB
Seller ID: 033734
Keywords: books about books, datb, decorated american trade binding, literary criticism, literature