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Forty Minutes Late and other Stories
by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
The Villages, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. September 1909. No other printings listed. A true 1st Edition. Durable olive green cloth covers with pictorial insert of man in top hat walking toward a town. Spine has a pictorial of a pitcher and goblet on a table. Not ex-library. Cover and spine print in white and gilt. 10 books by Smith listed on page prior to half title. Frontispiece with tissue paper guard, 7 other illustrations listed on VII and VIII. 224 pp with 4 pp of advertisements. Aside from wear to white print and lines, cover panels are in near fine condition. Spine has light ends' wear with some bending. Light wear to edges and corner tips. Clean with no writing or names. Cannot see any foxing, if so very limited. Spine cloth not completely glued to gatherings. Raised paper lines on pastedown and first page of ffep, crease extends to title page, but gets fainter on ensuing pages. Page toning/tanning. Wear on ffep corner, a few pages with corner or margin creasing. Creasing extends into text on a couple of pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121673
- Title
- Forty Minutes Late and other Stories
- Author
- F. Hopkinson Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- adult, fiction, relationships
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage-Adult; Fiction - Adult;
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About the Seller
D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.
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The Villages, Florida
About D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.
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