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by Roberts, Kenneth

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
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Very Good+/Good+
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Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Later printing.. Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Later printing. Very Good+/Good+. Later printing of the First Edition, inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with blind-stamped diamond and star decoration on cover and spine, bright gold anchor, quill and telescope decoration on cover, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (a few tiny water spots to top page edges). Inscribed by the author: "For Clarence L. Sibley with the Very Best Wishes of Kenneth Roberts - Kennebunkport, ME., July 10th, 1939." Small tasteful bookplate of famous Robertson collector (Comstock) on front fixed endpaper. 446 pgs. Published October 2, 1936 (fourth printing). Dustjacket is not price clipped, has shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edge, small surface scrape on spine well below author's name (smaller than a dime), two small pieces of tape on rear spine fold, closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover..

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Bookseller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
017485
Title
For Authors Only
Author
Roberts, Kenneth
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition
Good+
Edition
Later printing.
Publisher
Doubleday Doran
Place of Publication
Garden City
Date Published
1936
Keywords
AUTHORS WRITING ESSAYS SIGNED EDITIONS
Bookseller catalogs
SIGNED Editions; Essays;

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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio

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Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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...
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...
Price Clipped
When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Good+
A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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....
Inscribed
When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...

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