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Cream Hill: Discoveries of a Weekend Countryman
by Gannett, Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1949. Book. Illus. by Ruth Gannett, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, published May, 1949, in clean original dust jacket. Clean rust brown cloth boards with color paste-on illustration on cover (clean, unworn) with gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean nicely illustrated endpapers. Two previous owner names penned on half-title page. Illustrated with beautiful lithographs by Ruth Gannett. 191 pages. Clean jacket is price clipped, has fading to spine background, 1" closed tear, surface edge wear at folds. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32054
- Title
- Cream Hill: Discoveries of a Weekend Countryman
- Author
- Gannett, Lewis
- Illustrator
- Ruth Gannett, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- COUNTRY LIVING, RURAL LIFE, CONNECTICUT, LEWIS GANNETT, NATURE, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Country Living;
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
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