The Preacher and the Slave
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. Fictionalized life of labor hero Joe Hill, later reprinted as 'Joe Hill'. First edition (first printing) with date on title page. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, but ex-department store lending library with rubberstamp, date, and scribbled-out name on free endsheet; no other marks noted; jacket edgeworn, chipped, creased, with short tears, faded spine, sticker-removal scar. Text clean; x, [2], 403 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0784
- Title
- The Preacher and the Slave
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Joe Hill, Labor, Wobblies, Unions, IWW, I.W. W., Workers, Working Class, Labor Activism, Radicals, Organize!
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...