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THE REAL REWARD
by Parmenter, Christine Whiting & Price, Hattie 01d
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book, VG DJ. Seldom read, stays closed when stood on spine.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown. FINE book, VG DJ. Seldom read, stays closed when stood on spine.. 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). "MINT" inside. Black lettered & decorated green cloth. Color frontis & 5 b/w plates. 8vo, 259pp. . One trivial book flaw: spine ends rounded. Very nice DJ complete with $2.00 price. DJ color front panel of young couple & cottage, duplicated on the frontis. Lightly aged & foxed white DJ. DJ with minor edgewear, few 1/2" closed tears. 1" chip in DJ spine heel affecting few letters of publisher name. Parmenter's fourth book. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003737
- Title
- THE REAL REWARD
- Author
- Parmenter, Christine Whiting & Price, Hattie 01d
- Illustrator
- Price col front & 5 b/w plts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE book, VG DJ. Seldom read, stays closed when stood on spine.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). "MINT" inside. Black lettered &, decorated green cloth. Color frontis & 5 b/w plates. 8vo, 259pp., price, hattie price
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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