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A Kentucky Girl or A Question Unanswered
by Se Arcy, Ann
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Berea KY: Berea College Printing Dept, 1909. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 111 pages. Hardcover in brown cloth with gilt title on front board. Binding is rubbing. There is a ring mark on front board, a damp mark at lower edge of rear board. Corners are bumped. Author has inscribed front flyleaf in pencil, "From Anne Searcy to her friend Mrs. Lori C. Hunter with love and affection. / Aug. 14, 1923." Prior owner has written his last name in pencil next to the inscription and in pen on the rear flyleaf. Pages 39/40 have had a diagonal tear repaired with old tape that has browned the facing page 38. There are also old browned tape repairs on the leaf for pages 45/46. Portrait frontis. There is a plate facing page 17 showing Whitehall, home of Cassius M. Clay.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050370
- Title
- A Kentucky Girl or A Question Unanswered
- Author
- Se Arcy, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Berea College Printing Dept
- Place of Publication
- Berea KY
- Date Published
- 1909
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1909; Ann Se Arcy; Searcy; Kentucky Girl; Fiction; The South; Southern; Whitehall; Cassius M. Clay.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana--The South; Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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