Click for full-size.
APRIL; A Fable of Love / By Vardis Fisher
by Fisher, Vardis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. & The Caxton Printers, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo, brown cloth, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a standing woman, top page edges stained red, 206 pages. Yardis Fisher (1895 - 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. Having been raised in the faith, his Children of God (1939) dealt with the Latter-day Saints. His 12-volume Testament of Man (1943-60) novelized the history of humankind. In 1937, the year in which APRIL was published about a homely young woman's poeticized love affair, Fisher wrote The Idaho Guide for the WPA! One of Fisher's less common titles often without dust jacket. There appear to be two states of the dust jacket: one plain; another with this Art Nouveau image of a woman. One assumes this is the latter state in which the publisher has enhanced the dj of a better-seller. Cloth is tight with light soil; pages have moderate and uniform page-toning; the dust jacket (unclipped) has wear and bare spots on the rear panel.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5659
- Title
- APRIL; A Fable of Love / By Vardis Fisher
- Author
- Fisher, Vardis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. & The Caxton Printers
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Love, West, romance, Idaho, Works Project Administration
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
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
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
Frequently asked questions
A Brief History of the Dust Jacket
When did dust jackets first appear, and what exactly are they for? Learn about this often-important detail as it applies to book collecting. More...
Collecting P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum was not only one of the founders of modern day circus performance, he was also the author of the second most printed book of the 19th century. Learn about collecting P. T. Barnum books and ephemera here.
