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Laughing Boy
by Oliver LaFarge
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Laughing Boy" by Oliver LaFarge. First edition first printing with the title page date matching the copyright date (1929). Ex-Library copy. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1929. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Novel (Fiction) in 1930. Small 8vo, 302 pp. With the original second state dust jacket. On the second state dust jacket the front flap begins with "Riding over the desert, out of the wild north country where white men are little known, comes Laughing Boy, a warrior of the Navajos." The dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to the panels, spine and extremities. The original price of $2.50 is present on the front flap.The book is in fair to good condition. The spine is heavily faded and the boards are grubby. Previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down. Smith College written on the front endpaper. Huntington Library embossed seal on the title and dedication pages. Slight musty smell emitted from the book. The textblock is clean and bright. A complimentary brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket is included for protection and display. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(Pul-44).
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Details
- Seller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000735
- Title
- Laughing Boy
- Author
- Oliver LaFarge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
Ernestoic Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Ernestoic Books
Biblio member since 2023
Clarence, New York
About Ernestoic Books
Ernestoic Books, where you can find the most sought after Modern First Editions. As our name suggests, Ernest Hemingway is our specialty and our passion. We guarantee the condition of every book we sell. Returns may be made within 14 days of receipt for any reason. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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