Description
Up For Sale Today is
Knapp & Spencer Company
Wholesale Hardware
General Catalog No. 41
Hardcover. 4to. Published by Knapp & Spencer Company, Sioux City, Iowa. 1941. 512 pgs. Illustrated.
Ex-US Patent Office library item with bookplate present to the front pastedown and stamps present to the title page. Bound in cloth boards with orange and blue titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
The trade of this firm has steadily increased through the years until now it is one of the largest independent wholesale hardware concerns in the northwest, selling to retailers in northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. Practically every item carried in the largest and most up-to-date hardware stores anywhere in the country may be found in this establishment. The company is housed in splendid building, six stories and basement, the large stock carried insuring quick service to buyers.
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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