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The New Day
by Middleton, Scudder
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. Hardcover. 12mo (18.5 cm), white spine, blue paper over boards, gilt lettering on spine, paper label title on upper cover, author inscription on endpaper. Viii, 79 pp., 3 pp. publisher ads. Bookplate of John Evans on front paste down. A collection poems celebrating the end of World War I. Inscribed by the author to novelist Claire Spencer, as follows: "For Claire From Scudder, 'Now there are many things between -- shadows of mountains and voices of the Sea.' Spring, 1925." Middleton was associated with the New Yorker magazine during the time of Katherine and E. B. White, and James Thurber. Claire Spencer was married to publisher Harrison Smith and then John Evans, son of Mabel Dodge Luhan of Taos, N.M. fame. CONDITION: Good, small losses and breaks to head and foot of spine, light wear at extremities, light damp stain on bottom edge upper cover and spine; dust jacket fair witht wo sections torn along back panel and across spine, chipped at head and foot of spine, brown stains to spine, chipping and wear at edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4861
- Title
- The New Day
- Author
- Middleton, Scudder
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919
Terms of Sale
James Arsenault & Company
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About the Seller
James Arsenault & Company
Biblio member since 2021
Arrowsic, Maine
About James Arsenault & Company
James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock consists of Americana, literature, fine press, early photography, plate books, trade catalogs, autographs & manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and historical prints, as well as fine and rare books and pamphlets in a variety of fields. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and ILAB, and have exhibited for many years at numerous rare book fairs in both the northeast and in California. We do not have an open shop, but welcome your inquiries regarding items in our stock possibly of interest to you.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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