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Whither I Must
by DRYDEN, Bridget
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm.); purple publisher's cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering, in a green pictorial dustwrapper; 305pp. Boards showing minimal wear throughout; Fine. Textblock toned on edges and page margins; bottom edge stained. Pages clear and sound, Near Fine. Dustwrapper shows some surface wear with soiling visible on lighter portions. Toning on edges; spine also toned, with chipping at crown. Wrapper edges have some rolling and small tears; larger tear w/ material loss on upper front panel. Wrappers are Very Good. A novel about the unfurling of a widow's past life and loves, as she journeys to New York City for a day. Title card laid-in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46347
- Title
- Whither I Must
- Author
- DRYDEN, Bridget
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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