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Father of the Bride
by STREETER, Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good
- Seller
-
Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. First Edition. Boards. Very good +/very good. Gluyas WILLIAMS. First edition. 12mo; 244pp; blue textured paper over board, vignette of a father in a morning suit with the title to front; frontispiece and 51 b&w cartoon style illustrations with titles; shelf rubbing to edges, light crease to ffep and first few upper corners; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chip to front and head of spine, rubbing to edges, lightly age-toned; very good plus in vg dj. Humorous story of a mid-20th century wedding in America, and the basis for the 1950 Vincent Minelli film starring Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor Burton and others. Remade in 1991 staring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1074
- Title
- Father of the Bride
- Author
- STREETER, Edward
- Illustrator
- Gluyas WILLIAMS
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
Thomaston, Maine
About Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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