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Missouri Bittersweet
by Kantor, MacKinlay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible Good/fair
- Seller
-
Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Collectible Good/fair. Octavo, pp. [9], x-xii, [1], 2-324. Stated first edition. Signed and inscribed by author inside the front cover: "Inscribed for Helen and Oz xxxx. Cordially, MacKinlay Kantor, 28 May 1969." Gold cloth-covered boards with brown spine and gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Stain on front board at top edge. Bookplate inside front cover. Dust jacket with age, wear and some foxing and now encased in a clear, protective cover. MacKinlay Kantor won the Pulitzer Prize for 'Andersonville.'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wayside Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9359
- Title
- Missouri Bittersweet
- Author
- Kantor, MacKinlay
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1969
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- Travel;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Wayside Books
Biblio member since 2021
Pittsburg, Kansas
About Wayside Books
Wayside Books LLC is owned by Dianne and Steven Cox, currently operating their online store in Southeast Kansas. We have honed our rare book skills at the Rare Books School at the University of Virginia and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. We sell modern first editions and collectible fiction, as well as children's books and non-fiction books, with an emphasis on history, politics, social sciences, and the arts.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Inscribed
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- First Edition
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