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Miss Minerva's Problem
by Sampson, Emma Speed. Illustrated By Clifford P. Benton
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1936. Copyright 1936, likely first edition. Hard to find title with condition issues - please read complete description. Red pictorial cloth printed in black, with dustjacket. The book has had moisture exposure that mainly impacts the covers, endpapers and the interior of the dustjacket, but no musty odor. Covers spotted with both light and dark areas, evidence of old mildew to endpapers and blanks at beginning and end, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [1.25] and looks great from the outside with only minor shelfwear and tiny edge chips, internally stained from the red covers, very little paper loss.. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047217
- Title
- Miss Minerva's Problem
- Author
- Sampson, Emma Speed. Illustrated By Clifford P. Benton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Lee Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- SOUTHERN SOCIAL FICTION HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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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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- Mildew
- Mildew is an all-too-common affliction that plagues books and erodes their collectibility, value and preservation. A fungus...
- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- New
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- 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....
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