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The City Under the Back Steps
by Lampman, Evelyn Sibley
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good plus/Lacking Dustjacket
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First Edition. cloth. Good plus/Lacking Dustjacket. Honore Valintcourt. Lampman, Evelyn Sibley : The City Under the Back Steps. Garden City : Doubleday & Co, 1960. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.5"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's tan cloth, green lettering/purple ornamentation to spine. Plain white endpapers. [1-8] prelim material, 9-210, [211-216] blank. Charming b&w illustrations by Honore Valintcourt. Condition notes: a worn but sound and collectible first printing: lack dust jacket; spine slightly cocked; tan cloth boards show rubbing, staining and the occasional stray crayon mark of the loved book; spine ends rolled and head rear corner bumped; edges tanned with several stains and light crayon marks. Interior shows former owner's name and date neatly in pen to head ffep; "Vroman's/Pasadena" bookstore label affixed to front pastedown, price torn away. Endpapers tanned with foxing; interior generally tanned, no foxing noted, nor markings. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Furrowed Brow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240208002
- Title
- The City Under the Back Steps
- Author
- Lampman, Evelyn Sibley
- Illustrator
- Honore Valintcourt
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good plus
- Jacket Condition
- Lacking Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 1.06 lbs
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About the Seller
Furrowed Brow Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
About Furrowed Brow Books
Furrowed Brow Books was established in 2020. The bookstore's owner, Paul Purman, grew up in an old farmhouse full of books. Paul had been providing online booksales since 2008 through several popular online sales venues. In 2021 Paul was accepted as a member of the Independent Online Booksellers' Association (IOBA), and graduated from the annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).
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Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
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Furrowed Brow Books' goal is to offer an eclectic selection, while providing specialty offerings in Eastern Orthodoxy and Byzantine civilization, theology, Christian mysticism, science fiction/fantasy (Inklings emphasis), and military history.
We're happy to discuss making an offer on a collection in one of our specialty areas.
Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
Thanks for stopping by!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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