JOHNNY PYE & THE FOOL-KILLER
by Benet, Stephen Vincent
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Weston, VT: The Countryman Press (1938) 80 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Spine and top edges sunned. Crease to bottom corner of title page, and top corner of rear blank endpaper. #476 of 750 copies. SIGNED BY STEPHEN VINCENT BENET AND CHARLES CHILD. Includes a brown paper wrap around title band. Comes in original (?) clear plastic slipcase, which has three long tears. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice.. Signed by Author and Artist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Charles Child. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23799LIT
- Title
- JOHNNY PYE & THE FOOL-KILLER
- Author
- Benet, Stephen Vincent
- Illustrator
- Charles Child
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Countryman Press
- Place of Publication
- Weston, VT
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION GENERAL AGING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS DEATH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS CHARACTER PYE JOHNNY LITERARY WORKS AMERICAN AUTHORS BENET STEPHEN VINCENT 1898 1943 ILLUSTRATED CHILD CHARLES
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Sunned
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