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The Robber Bridegroom
by Welty, Eudora
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Welty on the half-title page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and with some surface and edge rubbing, small tape reinforcements at the corners. Blue buckram, light shelf wear, with white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, former owner's information whited out on the front endpaper. The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Synopsis
The Grimm's Brothers' fairy tale, The Robber Bridegroom, is retold through the lens of the American South in this Eudora Welty novel. Set along the Natchez Trace, the story tells of Rosamond, who was kidnapped away from her home by a bandit. The tale contains mistaken identities, the cruel stepmother, beauty, terror, sex, and violence - all the best that fairy tales have to offer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2398
- Title
- The Robber Bridegroom
- Author
- Welty, Eudora
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1942
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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- Buckram
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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
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