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Times and Tendencies
by Repplier, Agnes
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled, chipped at the edges. Brown cloth, lightly bumped, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Repplier's penultimate collection of essays about war, peace, humor, medicine, film, among other topics.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10167
- Title
- Times and Tendencies
- Author
- Repplier, Agnes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Belles Lettres, Essay, American Studies, American History, 20th Century, Jazz Age, Religion, Culture, Film, Medicine, Pill
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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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