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Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
by Hudson, W.H
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Third printing of first edition, in same year as original publication. An autobiography by the author of Green Mansions. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding, sharp corners, and clean pages. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth binding is lightly fading. Unpriced dust jacket has ad for War Savings Stamps. Chips to edges of jacket but otherwise it is fresh and bright. Frontispiece portrait of the author, with intact tissue protector. Bookplate of Roy and Alberta Rogers affixed to front free endpage. Last page untrimmed. 8vo. 332 pp. In protective Mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94981
- Title
- Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
- Author
- Hudson, W.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- Argentina; British writers; Green Mansions
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Warwick Books
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South Pasadena, California
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Jacket
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