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When the Whippoorwill.
by RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1940. First edition, first printing. This collection of short stories is, like Rawlings's Pulitzer Prize winning 1938 novel The Yearling, about "the Florida scene and Florida people" (front flap). It includes "Gal Young Un", her first widely successful work of fiction, which won the inaugural O. Henry short story prize in 1933 and was made into a film of the same name in 1979, directed by Victor Nuñez. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black and blocked in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. New Jersey bookseller's ticket of Traver's on rear pastedown with offsetting to facing page. Spine sunned, light rubbing to ends and corners, covers and rear free endpaper slightly foxed. A very good copy in like jacket, foxing to head of rear flap with chip to head of fold, short closed tear to head of spine, edges a little nicked and creased.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 161365
- Title
- When the Whippoorwill.
- Author
- RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Date Published
- 1940
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
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- Fore Edge
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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