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Arundel (300th Anniversary Edition)
by Roberts, Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1953. Reprint of May 1953. Fine in navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board with map end sheets. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with two 1/4 inch long closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area and a small chip from the rear upper fore corner of the rear board over the tip of the board. This is the very scarce 300th Anniversary Edition which has a specially tipped-in page in advance of th title page bearing the signature of the author. 652 pages of text followed by a number of pages of ads for other titles by Roberts. Reportedly there were only 701 copies of this edition celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the town of Arundel, Maine. The special tipped-in page is signed by Kenneth Roberts. An extremely handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32231
- Title
- Arundel (300th Anniversary Edition)
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint of May 1953
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1953
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Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Title Page
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
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