The Young Idea: A Comedy of Enviroment
by SWINNERTON, Frank
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green cloth titled in green on a black background on the cover and spine; yellow toptain; dustjacket; 296pp.; spine ends gently pushed; Very Good+ or better; The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with chipping and short tears to the extremities; Very Good.
"The suburbs of London where Cockneys look with resolute distaste at the refined oddments in the shops of Piccadilly, is the background for this buoyant, quietly humorous romance of young Hilda, a clerk in a London office and her longing to believe "in the beauty of something." (from the dustjacket).
"The suburbs of London where Cockneys look with resolute distaste at the refined oddments in the shops of Piccadilly, is the background for this buoyant, quietly humorous romance of young Hilda, a clerk in a London office and her longing to believe "in the beauty of something." (from the dustjacket).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54178
- Title
- The Young Idea: A Comedy of Enviroment
- Author
- SWINNERTON, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Great Britain;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.