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Give Him to the Angels The Story of Harry Greb
by FAIR, James R
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Smith and Durrell, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. viii, 184. Frontis. photo portrait. Bound in yellow cloth with brown lettering stamped on the front board and spine. Edges of leaves a tad age-toned. In the price-clipped dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear, mostly to head and tail of spine. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper to Seattle author, philanthropist and civic leader Stimson Bullitt. Biography of the Pittsburgh pounder who walloped Gene Tunney in a 1922 championship bout.
The 1969 inscription honors Stimson Bullitt on his 50th birthday. A short note card is laid in. Born to one of Seattle's most prominent families, and raised in great comfort, as a young man Bullitt sought a life of hard Depression-Era experience by traveling by boxcar to and from Yale University, (and one year riding a motorcycle coast-to-coast), seeing Ledbelly in the Village, and amateur boxing during his college years and perhaps into his South Seas service during WWII.
Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7330
- Title
- Give Him to the Angels The Story of Harry Greb
- Author
- FAIR, James R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith and Durrell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Leaves
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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