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American Beauty
by Ferber, Edna
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Skyway, Washington, United States
Item Price
NZ$46.25NZ$37.00
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Stated first edition. Prior owner's name inked on half title page. Some staining to page fore edges. Full cloth binding. Patterned endpapers. 313pp. Dust jacket is good only with chipping along edges, some soiling, toned spine panel. Original 2.50 price intact on front flap. Offered now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Ruzicka, Rudolph. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064741
- Title
- American Beauty
- Author
- Ferber, Edna
- Illustrator
- Ruzicka, Rudolph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
- Keywords
- Fiction Novel
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Turn-The-Page Books
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Skyway, Washington
About Turn-The-Page Books
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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