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MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE (khaki edition)
by Fairbanks, Douglas 04e
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+ book, VG DJ. 1st thus edition. 7"x4", 157,(1ad)pp.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Britton Publishing Co.. VG+ book, VG DJ. 1st thus edition. 7"x4", 157,(1ad)pp.. (1918). 1st thus ed.. Hardcover. VG+ book, VG DJ. Black lettered green cloth. Tight. Spine & edges sunned a bit. FINE inside BUT: fep w inked name & notes. . DJ states: "Khaki edition, $1.00 net for the boys going to the front". DJ spine sunned. DJ extrems with 1/4" chips & a 1" closed tear. DJ otherwise quite nice. FINE text, photos & in text drawings. All three text block edges clean as new. TIGHT binding. Book stays closed when stood on its spine. With 16 b/w photos and many in text decorations by Harold A. Van Buren. Ad at back lists six other Fairbanks inspirational books. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002279
- Title
- MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE (khaki edition)
- Author
- Fairbanks, Douglas 04e
- Illustrator
- illustrated with b/w photos.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ book, VG DJ. 1st thus edition. 7"x4", 157,(1ad)pp.
- Edition
- 1st thus ed.
- Publisher
- Britton Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1918)
- Keywords
- VG+ book, VG DJ. Black lettered green cloth. Tight. Spine & edges, sunned a bit. FINE inside BUT: fep w inked name & notes.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 1st Thus
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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- Text Block
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- New
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