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Always the Young Strangers
by CARL SANDBURG
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First Edition. Scarce in dust jacket. Very good plus, overall. Near fine in green cloth with black tiles and gilt lettering. Pi/Very Good
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition. Scarce in dust jacket. Very good plus, overall. Near fine in green cloth with black tiles and gilt lettering. Pictorial boards with photographs richly colored and clean, Very good dust jacket with wear and some small chipping to head and tail of spine, corners and edge and rear cover edge, otherwise very nice.in price-clipped dust jacket. Octavo. 22x15 cm. 445 pp. A lovely copy.
Synopsis
Born in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he played, studied, and matured in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg's reminiscence delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life and an invaluable perspective on American history. Index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31617
- Title
- Always the Young Strangers
- Author
- CARL SANDBURG
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition. Scarce in dust jacket. Very good plus, overall. Near fine in green cloth with black tiles and gilt lettering. Pi
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
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Potomac, Maryland
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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