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This Is My Best - Over 150 self-chosen and complete masterpieces, together with their reasons for their selection
by Burnett, Whit, ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good unmarked, some foxing to endpapers, owner bookplate..
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dial Press, 1942. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Hardback in beige cloth boards, no jacket,. Good unmarked, some foxing to endpapers, owner bookplate... Almost 100 famous authors choose their own favorite works, a reader's delight. Clean tight HB copy.
6 x 8-3/4, 1180 pp, indexes, biographies & bibliographies, top edge tinted, deckled fore-edge.
6 x 8-3/4, 1180 pp, indexes, biographies & bibliographies, top edge tinted, deckled fore-edge.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41357
- Title
- This Is My Best - Over 150 self-chosen and complete masterpieces, together with their reasons for their selection
- Author
- Burnett, Whit, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in beige cloth boards, no jacket,
- Book Condition
- Used - Good unmarked, some foxing to endpapers, owner bookplate..
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not stated, presumed 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays, Anthologies, Humor;
Terms of Sale
edburynbooks
Books are returnable for full refund but the buyer pays the return postage. If the book was as described by the seller, no original postage charge will be refunded.
About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...