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MANDOA, MANDOA!
by Winifred Holtby
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good-
- Seller
-
Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[WINIFRED HOLTBY]. MANDOA, MANDOA! Macmillan Company, New York, 1933. First U.S. Edition. Book Condition: Fine / Near Fine. In publisher's original mint green cloth boards and original grey top-stained page edges, stamped in dark brown leaf design on spine and type of cover. Appears barely read, pages are clean and binding tight. Dust Jacket condition: Good / Fair. Intact with original price of $2.50, chips to extremities, slightly sunned spine with one inch chip to lower spine, two by one inch chip to rear cover, one inch chip to edge on front cover, neat tape behind jacket to first flap, scarce DJ in any condition. DJ in professional collector Brodart mylar sleeve. Comedy about a fictional resort in remote Africa, from the same author of the 1936 novel South Riding. With dedication page to writer, feminist, nurse and journalist, Vera Mary Brittain. Beautiful Art Deco illustrations on dust jacket, cast of characters on front inner flap and reviewer blurbs on rear inner flap. Classic 1930's comedy fiction from one of the earliest British female authors, collectible. 393 pgs. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-418
- Title
- MANDOA, MANDOA!
- Author
- Winifred Holtby
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmllan Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Literary fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Astro Trader Books
Biblio member since 2020
Los Angeles , California
About Astro Trader Books
Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Brodart
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- Edges
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- Spine
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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"...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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