Mannequin
by HURST, Fannie
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, stamped in colors, titled in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 297pp. General mild wear, with some toning to endpapers; Very Good. In the original, priced dustwrapper ($2.00 net), toned and a bit weak at spine folds (but without restoration); dime-sized scuff to base of spine panel, about VG.
A flapper-era melodrama involving the daughter of an aristocratic family who is kidnapped in infancy and raised in squalor on New York's lower east side. Though not praised by critics, Mannequin received the 1926 Liberty Prize for best work of fiction. HANNA 1856.
A flapper-era melodrama involving the daughter of an aristocratic family who is kidnapped in infancy and raised in squalor on New York's lower east side. Though not praised by critics, Mannequin received the 1926 Liberty Prize for best work of fiction. HANNA 1856.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22845
- Title
- Mannequin
- Author
- HURST, Fannie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women; Social Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...