Sold for:
$180
$180
Salesman's Sample Copy of Our New West , by Samuel Bowles (1826-1878) Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co. , 1869. Title page, frontispiece, approximately 120 pages of sample text, with illustrations, eight pages of promotional material for the book, thirty-six ruled pages for the names, addresses, and style of binding chosen by subscribers, and samples of three different spines, demonstrating binding styles, pasted inside the front and back boards; plain spine on the sample itself, cloth binding, front board stamped with gilt title logo; water stain to frontispiece, and scattered pages in text, 5 1/2 x 9 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
