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Faber, Geoffrey : A Publisher Speaking

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1935

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with beige and blue dust wrapper. Gilt lettering on spine of the book. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 156 pages, complete. Advertisements for other books on the back panel of the dust wrapper. The front flap of the dust wrapper advertises The Truth About Publishing by Stanley Unwin, and the back flap also advertises Our Starving Libraries by R. L. Duffus. Pages and covers of the book are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is clean and intact except for some faint stains on the front and back panels, slight browning on its spine, and some corner and edge wear (most of the edge wear is limited to the head and tail of the spine; corners have a small bit of chipping). Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. A book containing four addresses on the book trade. Excerpt from the front panel of the dust wrapper: "An intelligent and provocative discussion of the importance of the book-trade as a function of society, dealing constructively with the inner conditions and problems of the bookselling and publishing trades." Chapters are as follows: "On Bookselling: A Publisher Looks at Booksellers," "On Bookselling: The Relation Between Bookselling and Publishing," "On Publishing: Book Trade Problems and Policy," "On Publishing: Are Publishers Any Use?," and "Censorship: Notes on a Proposed Literary Censorship." Index in the back.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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