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Some Go Up
by Tupper, Samuel, Jr
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1931. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 288 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with red lettering. Near Fine with a little sunning to spine cloth through the jacket, former owner's name written in impeccably neat art deco script on front free endpaper (everyday people's penmanship used to be used to be excellent, if you didn't know). In Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine, red in back panel mostly gone, worn at head and tail, a little toned and foxed. Uncommon.
A novel of two striving families in Atlanta society, wherein a bank crash plays a prominent role. The author's first novel. He would go on to be the director of Georgia state Writer's Program of the WPA.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140943130
- Title
- Some Go Up
- Author
- Tupper, Samuel, Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Southern fiction, Atlanta, WPA, society, bank crashes, Great Depression
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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