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Eric Sloane's Almanac and Weather Forecaster.
by SLOANE, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown,, 1955. First edition, first printing, inscribed and illustrated by Eric Sloane on the front free endpaper, "To Mr & Mrs Max Lale from Millard Cope" and signed by Sloane underneath, "Eric Sloane Brookfield Conn. 1955." The illustration depicts a couple under an umbrella, walking past a town sign-posted "Greenville". Max Lale (1916-2006) was a decorated war veteran who worked as a publisher for the Herald-Banner in Greenville, before joining the Marshall Texas News Messenger in 1946. It was here he met Millard Cope (1905-1964), who had been appointed publisher the year before. Octavo. Red cloth, spine lettered in black, weathervane vignette to front cover. With dust jacket. Inscription and illustration on front free endpaper, dated the year of publication. Edges lightly toned and foxed, otherwise clean; a near-fine copy in a good jacket, extremities generally worn, spine faded, loss to corners and upper edge of panels. Not price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157024
- Title
- Eric Sloane's Almanac and Weather Forecaster.
- Author
- SLOANE, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston: Little Brown,
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Vignette
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Inscribed
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