Story of the Trapp Family Singers
by Von Trapp, Maria Augusta
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0397000189
- ISBN 13
- 9780397000180
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 0397000189 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309 pages; [SIGNED by 6 Trapp singers and Father Franz Wasner] 1951 J. B. Lippincott HC/DJ Hardcover in original dust jacket. 9th printing. Signed by Maria von Trapp, Franz Wasner, Hedwig Trapp, Werner Trapp. Agathe Trapp, Eleonore Trapp and Johannes Trapp on the front free endpage. Soundly bound in original beige colored cloth with titles in maroon to cover and spine. Pictorial dust jacket is moderately toned with some foxing to the reverse blank surface and less so to the printed flaps. Jacket rubbed and worn at edges with a few shallow chips from the spine ends and corners; front flap price clipped bottom corner. Light to moderate toning top edge of the signed flyleaf where an article or note had been paper clipped. Mild rust offset from the removed paperclip top edge of the half-title page. There is a mild damp line and wave across the front edge of about 100 pages mid-book. Illustrated with some photos on glossy stock; a few photos with foxing to the adjacent leaves. Cloth a little rubbed with trace fray at spine ends; bottom corners a little bumped. G+/G++ ; Signed by Collection of Signatures .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51197
- Title
- Story of the Trapp Family Singers
- Author
- Von Trapp, Maria Augusta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Tenth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0397000189
- ISBN 13
- 9780397000180
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- 0397000189
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography, General;
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
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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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