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Keep 'Em Crawling: Earthworms at War
by Upson, William Hazlett
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 339pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Ex-library, with a library stamp on the bottom edge of the text block. The spine ends and the corners of the covers are gently rubbed and bumped, and there are a number of tape stains on the endsheets. Else, the pages are clean, and the book is sturdy. The dust jacket, designed by E. Franklin Wittmack, is trimmed short, and there is a slash mark that runs through the center of the front panel, from top to bottom. The slash does cut through the top half. A book featuring Alexander Botts, roving sales manager of the Earthworm Tractor Company.
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Details
- Seller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 47027
- Title
- Keep 'Em Crawling: Earthworms at War
- Author
- Upson, William Hazlett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- William Hazlett Upson; Alexander Botts
Terms of Sale
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
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