Joy Is an Inside Job
by Blanding, Don
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/VG-/G+
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1953. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-/G+. The noted Hawaiian poet here combines verse & prose in an exploration of life's spiritual values & how to journey to one's own "joy age,'' whatever age you are now. In 159 pages with pen-and-ink illustrations by the author throughout. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1953, this hardcover 8vo has dark blue cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration to front & lettering to spine. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright, with modest rubbing to lower extremities & mild bumping to all corners. Interior pages are creamy white & clean with mild tanning, completely unmarked. The unclipped DJ is Good+/VG-, with some rather large chips to top edge & smaller scattered ones to bottom; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021093
- Title
- Joy Is an Inside Job
- Author
- Blanding, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-/G+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- POETRY HAWAII HAWAIIAN VERSE INSPIRATION HAPPINESS HAPPY SELF-HELP ALOHA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Hawaiiana/Other Islands;
Terms of Sale
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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