BRIGHT SKIN.
by Peterkin, Julia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in black cloth with gilt panels, tight and straight, sharp corners, rubbing to the spine, no dust jacket. /black cloth with gilt panels, tight and straight, sharp corners, rubbing to the spine, no
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1932.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in black cloth with gilt panels, tight and straight, sharp corners, rubbing to the spine, no dust jacket. . First edition. Novel set on a plantation in South Carolina Like Peterkin's Pulitzer prize-winning 'Scarlet Sister Mary" this is written in dialect. First edition is stated in a box on the title page. Light tinting to the top edge of the text block. 348 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82676
- Title
- BRIGHT SKIN.
- Author
- Peterkin, Julia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in black cloth with gilt panels, tight and straight, sharp corners, rubbing to the spine, no dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- black cloth with gilt panels, tight and straight, sharp corners, rubbing to the spine, no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill,
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis:
- Date Published
- (1932.)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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