Early Americana and Other Stories
by Richter, Conrad
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Full purplish-blue cloth covers lettered in gilt, under tan, brown and black dust jacket, 7-3/4" tall, 322 pp. + colophon. Dust jacket has fading to spine and about 1-1/4" strip along front panel near spine; price-clipped. A nice, neat first edition of the first book of the Pulitzer Prize winning author.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002353
- Title
- Early Americana and Other Stories
- Author
- Richter, Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- modern firsts
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Colophon
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