VG+/VG. Green boards, gilt titling, shelfwear, FO name to FPEP, clean, binding tight. Unclipped DJ edgewear heaviest to tips, some foxing/toning, now in Brodart. Illustrations throughout. Folded facscimile reproduction of July 3, 1886 issue of New York Daily Tribune tipped-in pocket to rear endpapers. Intro by Elizabeth Harris. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

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Title: The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype
Author: Schlesinger, Carl (ed.)
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Publication year: 1898
Condition: VG+
Dust jacket: VG
Binding: HC w DJ
Edition: Reprint, 1989.
Seller catalogs: Biography

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Refuge Books: Used & Rare. Buying and selling books in historic east Nashville, TN since 2012. Specializing in fiction/literature, history, biography, Civil War, books on books, theology, Louisiana, the Inklings, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Wendell Berry, Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Buechner, and much more. Inquiries are always welcome. Instagram: @refugebooks

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