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Description

Heading: (Grace Hoper Press)
Author: Grover, Sherwood, editor
Title: A Commonplace Book: Or In & Out of the Public Domain
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Grace Hoper Press
Date Published: 1956
Description:

[23], 2 pp. (4to) quarter cloth and patterned boards, morocco spine label. One of 40 copies.

Historically, commonplace books are used to compile knowledge, being essentially scrapbooks filled with quotes, letters, recipes, prayers, etc. The present volume consists of various entertaining quote and proverbs, imaginatively printed in various colors of text. Scarce.

Condition

Light wear to binding; scattered light foxing; very good.

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A Commonplace Book, 1956

Name: A Commonplace Book, 1956
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