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In Our Town
by Runyon, Damon
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Creative Age Press, 1946. Presumed First. Hardcover. Good. Garth Williams. Creative Age Press, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. No DJ, Brown cloth boards with silver titles and decoration, Corners bumped and lightly chipping. Scratches to back cover. Silver lettering on spine slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed from shelfwear. Modern deckled edges age-tanned and foxing. Foxing to endpapers. Prev. owner gift inscription on ffep. Darkening of pages at joint, and general age-tanning to pages. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Best known for Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon’s collection of slice of life stories In Our Town are charmingly presented in this slim first edition complimented with the sharp cartoonish B&W illustrations by Garth Williams. Fiction
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Details
- Bookseller
- Honest Dog Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A803981X00807
- Title
- In Our Town
- Author
- Runyon, Damon
- Illustrator
- Garth Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First
- Publisher
- Creative Age Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 120
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Honest Dog Books
Biblio member since 2022
Bayfield, Wisconsin
About Honest Dog Books
Honest Dog Books is a family-run new and used general interest bookstore with a long history in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Owners Julie Buckles and Charly Ray are wilderness travelers with a team of sled dogs, two teenagers, and deep love for community, literature, and conversation.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
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