The Mad Carews
by Ostenso, Martha
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Omaha,, Nebraska, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First Edition (NAP) . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in dark green cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Corresponding 1927 dates to the title and copyright pages; no additional printings. Decorated endpapers. The author was born in Norway and later lived in Canada; her themes were rural life in Canada and Minnesota. This copy has very light edgewear. The cloth is not soiled, split or frayed. Bookplate of Norwegian-American collector Herman Gimmestad to the front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Hinges solid. A clean, tight copy.
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- Bookseller
- Friendly Used Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123628
- Title
- The Mad Carews
- Author
- Ostenso, Martha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (NAP)
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- CANADA NORWAY MINNESOTA FICTION NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN RURAL FARM GIMMESTAD
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; Norway and Scandinavia;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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Books may be returned for refunds within 10 days if book is not as described.
About the Seller
Friendly Used Books
Biblio member since 2005
Omaha,, Nebraska
About Friendly Used Books
We have been selling books for over 40 years. For many years we had a B&M shop. We now exclusively sell online. We are conservative graders.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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