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TALES OF THE HOME FOLKS IN PEACE AND WAR
by HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Minor Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899. Spine a bit darkened. Cover designs and gilt lettering bright. Ink inscription on front endpapers. An early reprint of BAL 7041. first published the year before. 417pp.. Early Reprint. Yellow Cloth. Minor Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013459
- Title
- TALES OF THE HOME FOLKS IN PEACE AND WAR
- Author
- HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- American Literature, Southern Literature
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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