Journeyman
by CALDWELL, Erskine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Stated First Revised Edition (originally published in a limited edition in 1935). A novel set in the sleepy Southern town of Rocky Comfort and centering around the author's character, the itinerant preacher Semon Dye. This work followed the author's highly acclaimed 'Tobacco Road' and 'God's Little Acre'. --- In full tan cloth-covered boards with green and brown titling and decorations on cover and spine; publisher's blue topstain. Jacket with a Margaret Bourke-White photograph of Will Geer in the role of Semon Dye in the Broadway play production of this novel. --- With previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, otherwise a bright, firm, clean copy. Dust jacket bears original $2.00 flap price; has the numeral '4' in pencil on cover and with light edgewear; is otherwise nice and in removable archival mylar protector. ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 234 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77714
- Title
- Journeyman
- Author
- CALDWELL, Erskine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...