The Road from Echo, a Tale of the Virginia Mountains (SIGNED)
by Craig, Lillian K
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1930. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. H. Weston Taylor (Color Fonrtispiece). 12mo. 298, [14] pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt and in black. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Spine is a bit sunned. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. There are two inscription on the front flyleaf. Inscribed at the top corner, "Cleria from Nathan / March 28, 1931." Also INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, "To Gail Key, with all my love from the Author, Lillian K. Craig." Color frontispiece; no other illustrations. A color photo of some people is laid in loosely. Stated First Impression, 1930 on the copyright page. (NOVEL)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050755
- Title
- The Road from Echo, a Tale of the Virginia Mountains (SIGNED)
- Author
- Craig, Lillian K
- Illustrator
- H. Weston Taylor (Color Fonrtispiece)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1930; Lillian K. Craig; Virginia Mountains; Echo; Literature; Fiction; Virginian; Signed; Autographed; Inscribed.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies; Virginia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...