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Publishing and Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Author: Mumby, Frank Arthur
ISBN #: B00085PUZW
Price: $25.00
Publisher: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher Location: New York
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: none
Edition: First U.S.
Pub Date: 1931
some soiling to covers, spotting to page edges, lower corners bumped, previous owner's personal bookplate of Joseph Towne Wheeler to front endpaper, small bookstore label to front free endpaper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing, no others noted. Wheeler, a scholar and publishing historian, was the author of The Maryland Press 1777-1790, Baltimore, 1938. He was killed in action in the Italian Campaign of WWII. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!