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Beyond Dark Hills: A Personal Story
by STUART, Jesse
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1938. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); coarse green cloth boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; light green topstain; dustjacket; [12],13-399,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, subtle offsetting to endpapers along the gutters; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently sunned and dust-soiled, modestly edgeworn, with several nicks, tears, and attendant creases (one of them neatly tape mended on verso; Very Good. An early, autobiographical work by Stuart, charting his young boyhood in Kentucky.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60354
- Title
- Beyond Dark Hills: A Personal Story
- Author
- STUART, Jesse
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; The South; Appalachia;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- E.P.
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Fine
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