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CLAIRE AMBLER.
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928., 1928.. Very good. - Octavo, 7-7/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Blue cloth with orange title labels on the front cover & the spine, in the original pictorial art deco dust wrapper depicting the young flapper with young men. There is a short tear to the bottom edge of the dust jacket's front panel with creases and tiny chips to the top edge of the jacket. The jacket's spine is darkened. 253 pages, with illustrated endpapers. The binding is lightly cracked opposite the half-title. Very good.
First edition, first printing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96709
- Title
- CLAIRE AMBLER.
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.
- Date Published
- 1928.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; BOOTH TARKINGTON; 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING; FIRST EDITION; FIRST PRINTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ART NOUVEAU PICTORIAL DUST JACKET; CLAIRE AMBLER; FLAPPER.
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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