First the Seed
by Beach, Marjorie M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Santa Barbara, Ca: J. F. Rowny Press, 1963. HB. Green cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo., 264 pp. Warmly inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Edges of text block show some soiling, upper corners bumped, no marks in book, binding solid. In dust jacket that shows some shelf wear, minor chipping. World travels in 1939, by the wife of the mayor of Kansas City. Book condition VG- in VG- DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BF3503
- Title
- First the Seed
- Author
- Beach, Marjorie M
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. F. Rowny Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara, Ca
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Parker's Rare Books
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Ontario, Wisconsin
About Parker's Rare Books
Specializing in antiquarian, collectible, scholarly, and rare books of all genres.
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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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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