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Shadow and The Stocking, A True Story (SIGNED)
by Tippett, James S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Morgan Dennis. 12mo. 50 pages. Hardcover with black, white, and red illustrated dust jacket. The jacket has damping at the spine, paper is foxed, toned. Spine is toned. Colour illustrated endpapers. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Text is foxed. Illustrations throughout. James S. Tippitt was born in 1885 in Memphis, Missouri and was an educator and an author of primarily children's books. In 1939 he and his wife moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he was a professor of education at the University of North Carolina. He remained there until his death in 1958.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049037
- Title
- Shadow and The Stocking, A True Story (SIGNED)
- Author
- Tippett, James S
- Illustrator
- Morgan Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1937; James S. Tippett; Morgan Dennis; The South; Southern; Dog Stories; Story; True; Animal; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; UNC; University of North Carolina; Memphis, Missouri.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Signed Books & Association Copies; Animals;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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