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Gamble's Hundred
by Dowdey, Clifford; Shenton, Edward (Illust.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 3/4". 367pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket featuring the art of Edward Shenton, with 1" closed tear at upper edge of front panel, 1/4" closed tear at bottom edge of front panel, and mild sunning to spine. Light brown cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in black. Mild shelfwear to binding. Pictorial endpapers depicting a map of Gamble's Hundred by Edward Shenton. Previous owner's name to title page. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite attractive first printing in lovely dust jacket of Clifford Dowdey's novel of a plantation in tidewater Virginia, from 1676 to 1730.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2904
- Title
- Gamble's Hundred
- Author
- Dowdey, Clifford; Shenton, Edward (Illust.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, The Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- southern historical
Terms of Sale
Underground Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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