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Cornhuskers
by Carl Sandburg
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. First Edition, First State with "3" to bottom of third page present and $1.30 net price for Chicago Poems facing title page. Octavo. 147 pages + 2 pages publisher's advertisements. Printed dust jacket with $1.30 price to spine. Light brown boards stamped in dark green.
Dust jacket with some light chipping at extremities and a touch of toning and rubbing. Boards chipped at top of spine, light shelfwear to bottom edge, and toning to spine ends. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Nat Wolff to front pastedown (likely not the Nickelodeon actor/singer). Light toning to endpapers opposite jacket flaps. Pages bright and unmarked.
Scarce in first state, with the Ahearns noting the jacket with the $1.30 price is reportedly earlier than jackets with no price.
Dust jacket with some light chipping at extremities and a touch of toning and rubbing. Boards chipped at top of spine, light shelfwear to bottom edge, and toning to spine ends. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Nat Wolff to front pastedown (likely not the Nickelodeon actor/singer). Light toning to endpapers opposite jacket flaps. Pages bright and unmarked.
Scarce in first state, with the Ahearns noting the jacket with the $1.30 price is reportedly earlier than jackets with no price.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8882
- Title
- Cornhuskers
- Author
- Carl Sandburg
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare 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...
- 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...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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