Let Your Mind Alone! and other more or less inspirational pieces
by Thurber, James
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. Book. Illus. by Thurber, James - drawings. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. x + 245 pp, stated First Edition, presumed second state Aug, 1937, (Ahern, 1998) thus with no additional lines in fr drawing, previous owner's name inked at top of ffep, orange & beige cloth boards, blue letters and line drawings. DJ, in protector, heavily chipped all around, sun-tanned at the edges. Price clipped DJ,handles nicely in protector. 5.9" x 8.4" cloth covered boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007838
- Title
- Let Your Mind Alone! and other more or less inspirational pieces
- Author
- Thurber, James
- Illustrator
- Thurber, James - drawings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- humorist - humorous prose - James Grover Thurber b. Columbus Ohio 1899, d. NYC 1961 - cartoonist
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...