American Beauty

Liepzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1932. Paperback. Item: Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 5048 In A Collection of British and American Authors done by this publisher. Size: 6 and 1/2 by 4 and 3/4 inches Pages: 287 plus a 32 page publishers catalog Condition: This scarce vintage volume has a repaired tear to front cover [the repair was done by me with Archival document tape] Also the front cover is loose from the spine for 2 inches with edge wear, Small Chips and tears to spine with rubbing and soiling to covers and to page edges. The text is clean except for the very informative Tauchnitz catalogue at the end of the book is toned. The last few pages of the catalogue have chipping along the bottom edge. This collected volume is scarce and hard to find in any condition. All of our items are carefully packaged to withstand the rigors of being transported by the USPS; This a very collected Publisher as well as Author. These vintage Tauchnitz editions are becoming scarcer all the time. A great series to collect , the 32 page publishers catalog will give the owner much useful information on what edition were published. In this series as well as a number of others such as series for the young, collection of German Euthors, the students series and a number of other items. This catalog itself is worth the price for any book collector. This book was published for the European market and states on the front cover that it was not to be introduced to the British Empire or the USA .