Barren Ground
by Glasgow, Ellen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: "Doubleday, Page & Co.", 1925. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Good +/No Dustjacket. Dark Green Cloth covers with paper pastedown label on spine; red decorative endpapers; book is moderately tight and covers are lightly to moderately rubbed; spine label is chipped; corners are square; book interior is clean and tight; free front endpaper has previous owner's name written across it; 8vo; 511 pages; rear hinge cracked but attached; rear free endpaper has some pencil scribble on side opposite fixed endpapers and verso of rear free endpaper has newpaper photo of author's home where this book was written pasted in.
Synopsis
Set in Virginia, this novel evokes the irony of change in the rural South. Dorinda Oakley is a passionate, intelligent, and independent young woman struggling to define herself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 965000052
- Title
- Barren Ground
- Author
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- "First Edition, First Printing"
- Publisher
- "Doubleday, Page & Co."
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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Canton, Georgia
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.