New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Lib . Ex library copy with ink stamps to inside covers. Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, some loss of gilt to front cover and entirely missing from spine, sections of DJ flies with story details pasted to front enpaper. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. War economy standard edition. Maroon cloth boards with lettering to front and spine, leaves rough cut on fore edge. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 376 pages; One of the most hyped novels of 1944 with the author receiving a large advance for a movie that never got made. Said to be one of the great forgotten American Novels, set in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lee Harrington is a young man trying to sort out his memories of the tales of the Civil War told him by his grandfather and his father, and to imagine what their lives must have been like, and what the War had done to them. The memories of various battles are brought to life in his imagination alongside his own life in Kansas. .

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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 32858
Title: The History Of Rome Hanks And Kindred Matters
Author: Pennell, Joseph Stanley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1944
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Ex-Lib
Bookseller catalogs: 19th Century Warfare;

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...