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Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 313 pages. Blue cloth board. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Flaps are detached but present. Heavy loss and tape repairs to spine. Heavy tanning to jacket.
Adventures in Understanding by Grayson, David; [pseudonym for Ray Stannard Baker] - 1925
by Grayson, David; [pseudonym for Ray Stannard Baker]
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Adventures in Understanding
by Grayson, David; [pseudonym for Ray Stannard Baker]
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Very Good condition. Square and tight. Light edge wear. No owner's name or bookplate. A Merle Johnson HIGH SPOT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (p. 85): "Widely read essays of the simple life." Illustrated throughout by Thomas Fogarty whose contributions include a cover vignette, endpaper art, frontispiece, 7 other full page drawings, and numerous smaller sketches. "First Edition" is so stated. This is the first printing as described on page 35 of Merle Johnson's American First Editions (the 1936 edition, updated by Jacob Blanck). Original green cloth spine and light green paper covered boards. Printed paper spine label. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. Illus. by Fogarty, Thomas. 8vo. xii, 273pp.
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- Publisher Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication Garden City, New York
- Date Published 1925
- Size 8vo. xii, 273pp
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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ADVENTURES IN UNDERSTANDING
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APPLETON, Wisconsin, United States
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Green cloth spine with green paper boards. Jacket has some wear on edges. a few areas of foxing on page edges. Corners a little worn. name/date written on pencil on title page.
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Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed.
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Cincinnatii, Ohio, United States
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Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover without DJ, spine faded.
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Amherst,, Massachusetts, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. 273pp. Signature on endpaper dated 1925. Light general wear, spine top slightly frayed, bottom front edge well worn. Ideal Book Shop, NYC label on back endpaper. Photos on request. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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ADVENTURES IN UNDERSTANDING
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925. Hardcover. Good +. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Green cloth spine with green paper boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners quite worn, covers toned at sides. Spine label chipped and quite toned. Binding tight and text clean, unmarked. Fiction. Stax.
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Adventures In Understanding
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Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6_ - 7_" tall. First edition, eighth printing. In orange cloth boards, with black image of trees on front, black titles to spine, good, tight covers and spine. The "Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative Bindery Team" have cleaned the covers.Lightly tanned end papers and cut edges, the "Bindery Team" have replaced paste down end paper. Good text block, tight and lightly tanned and with some foxing. Scarce edition.
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Adventures in Understanding
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Amherst,, Massachusetts, United States
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Garden City: Dloubleday, Page & Co., 1925. Blue paper boards, green cloth spine and panels.with paper spine label. 273pp. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Slight general wear, top front tip bumped. Photos on request.. First Edition So Stated. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Amherst,, Massachusetts, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. Pale blue paper boards, green cloth spine and panels, paper spine label. 273pp. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Light edgewear, back panel a bit color faded, paper spine label lightly dulled. Photos on request.. First Edition So Staed. Hardcover. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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