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Doctor Red (SIGNED)
by Thompson, Thelma
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Arcadia House, Inc, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 256 pages. Hardcover bound in faded darkgray cloth with red lettering. The binding is considerably worn and bumped at the corners and edges. The spine is toned. Outer edges of the text block are darkened or heavily toned. Heavy foxing to the end papers. The front pastedown has a slip of paper pasted in which has typed names and dates, apparently as part of a reading club. The pages show occasional spotting and foxing throughout. Several beginning pages have small holes close to the spine. The text is otherwise clean and sound. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper, "For Martha & Ray Butler / In the fellowship of a common interest, the textile industry-- / Thelma Thompson / May, 1941." Thelma Thompson Slaydon (1907-1977) was born in Ashland, Alabama and lived in Atlanta Georgia where she taught creative writing at Emory University and at University of Georgia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050016
- Title
- Doctor Red (SIGNED)
- Author
- Thompson, Thelma
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Arcadia House, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1941; Thelma Thompson; Novel; Literature, Fiction; Signed; Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia; Emory University; University of Georgia; Southern Literature.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies; Southern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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