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House By the Sea
by Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt. Illustrated By Lynd Ward
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1938. First edition [1938]. Externally fair to good, internally good. Suitable for young people and adults. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Blue cloth printed in black, illustrated endpapers, 245 pages, no dustjacket. Covers unevenly faded and lightly soiled, spine sun-bleached but with lettering legible, good hinges, sound text block with a smudge to its lower edge, clean pages with some minor age-darkening to the outer edges, remains of old sticker at upper corner of front free endpaper, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029599
- Title
- House By the Sea
- Author
- Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt. Illustrated By Lynd Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION ILLUSTRATED NOVEL LONG ISLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- First Edition
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