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Paradise
by FORBES, Esther
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1937]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 556pp. General chipping and shelf-wear to jacket extremities, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, shallow strip of sunning to cloth spine crown, contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. "Historical Romance" set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46092
- Title
- Paradise
- Author
- FORBES, Esther
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1937]
- Keywords
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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