City Child
by Robinson, Selma
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall thin). A very good- copy in good+ dust jacket with most of jacket spine perished (few chips present); few small nicks, rubbing and browning to jacket (chiefly at foredges); slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. 64 pages. Later issue (lacks publisher's seal on title page verso; 'Third Edition' and original price of $2.00 on jacket front flyleaf; blurbs by Lisle Bell, Julia Peterkin and Oliver La Farge on jacket lower flyleaf); contains 40 poems in all (divided in 3 sections). Printed by the Ferris Printing Company.Kent, Rockwell (illustrator); 41 b/w Illustrations (including title page).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L078425
- Title
- City Child
- Author
- Robinson, Selma
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- nw0036 Robinson, Selma American Literature 20th Century American Poetry Illustrated Kent, Rockwell United States 20th Century Engraving Woodcut QX91, , , , , ,
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About the Seller
Arundel Books of Seattle
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Seattle, Washington
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- Good+
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- Edges
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- Title Page
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- Rubbing
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