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Farmer Takes a Wife
by John Gould
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1st printing; signed by author. Good hardcover, no DJ. Blue cloth over boards with black pictorial designs on front cover and spine; white titles on spine. Clean, square covers and spine; some age darkening of spine and along cover edges - spine titles clear; slight rubbing wear at spine head; tightly bound; inscribed on front free end paper with full author signature; clean interior with some general age darkening; leaves remain supple. Very slight musty odor. 12mo, 153 pp; illustrated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19802
- Title
- Farmer Takes a Wife
- Author
- John Gould
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: William Morrow and Company
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MAINE; RURAL; YANKEE; NEW ENGLAND; CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR; YORK TIMES; HUMORISTS; COLUMNISTS; 1940S
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humor;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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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