Heaven's My Destination (First Edition, Signed by Author)
by Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Borthers,, 1935. FIRST EDITION. Signed and inscribed by Thornton Wilder "For the Staff and Readers of the Lenox Library with the Greetings of Thornton Wilder, Lenox, August 1939". Full light tan cloth with orange decoration to spine and dark brown lettering. The book is quite cocked. Small brown stain to back cover lower corner. Lenox Library bookplate behind front cover with "Due Date" plate on front free endpage. Gutter visible between endpage and half title. Embossed stamp on title page with library numbers on contents page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Full Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013614
- Title
- Heaven's My Destination (First Edition, Signed by Author)
- Author
- Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Borthers,
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- Spine
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- Half Title
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- Title Page
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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