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Potato Face
by Sandburg, Carl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 96 pages; [SIGNED] 1930 Harcourt, Brace and Co. HC/DJ 1st edition, stated. Signed without inscription by Sandburg on the half title page. Snugly bound and neat in original yellow paper dust jacket lettered in black and green. Jacket has all 4 flap corners with shallow clips and is just slightly sun faded at spine. Superficial shelf rubbing to jacket extremities and a light vertical stress crease to the rear flap. Quarter yellow cloth backed spine and green cloth sides bold and bright. Faint offset toning to the verso of the half title page where a clipping has some time been laid in. Handsome clean copy and uncommon thus, especially so signed. NF/VG+; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53140
- Title
- Potato Face
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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