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Rabble In Arms
by Roberts, Kenneth
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran, c1933, 1938. Reprint of 1938. Fine in its original dark blue decorated cloth covered boards with bright gilt text on the spine and a gilt eagle on the front board with map end sheets. A small quarto of 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with art by N. C. Wyeth. This is a splendid copy with only a tiny amount of rubbing to the upper fore corner of the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 870 pages of text followed by four pages of ads by the publisher for other Kenneth Roberts' titles. A beautiful, tight clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32228
- Title
- Rabble In Arms
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint of 1938
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1933, 1938
Terms of Sale
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- Title Page
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- Quarto
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- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Reprint
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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