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We Chose The Country
by Jacobs, Herbert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Middle-aged 'big-city' (Milwaukee & Madison, Wisconsin) journalist, best known for commissioning houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, leaves the first such house to find mischief in the Wisconsin countryside; the last chapter discusses negotiations with Wright for a second house design - this chapter vexed the architect enough to cause a brief rift between him & the author. Original edition, stated first, date code C-X, scarce in the rather delicate jacket. Green hardcover, gilt titling, as pictured. Book shows light wear but some staining/foxing to the page edges, most pronounced on the endsheets, corners bumped; jacket chipped & rubbed, lightly stained, lower jacket corner clipped but upper corner price of $4.00 remains, pasted paper mend inside. Text clean; [8], 306 pages - though the jacket mentions a frontispiece, we have never seen a copy with it present. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0807
- Title
- We Chose The Country
- Author
- Jacobs, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Rural Living, Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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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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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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