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Lazy Bear Lane
by Thorne Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; VG
- Seller
-
Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran / Junior Books, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. George Shanks. 1st edition [stated, logo of JR on copyright page], 8vo, green cloth with yellow illustrations and lettering, yellow top edge, illustrated endpapers, 240 pages, color frontispiece, ten b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD / no jacket: slight cover wear, light rubbing to spine extremities, spine is slightly toned, faint foxing to first and last few pages, owner name on front endpaper, otherwise internally very clean and tight. A rare children's book, unfortunately without the even more rarely seen dust jacket...this is a nice copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16817
- Title
- Lazy Bear Lane
- Author
- Thorne Smith
- Illustrator
- George Shanks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran / Junior Books
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1931
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Bygone Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bygone Books
Biblio member since 2004
Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
A closed shop of fine used and collectible books with specialties in Literature, Children's, Domestic Arts, Decorative Arts, and Great Britain.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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....
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