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A Hoosier Holiday
by Theodore Dreiser
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: John Lane Company, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Franklin Booth. Second state with corrections on page 173, nostalgic account of automobile trip from NYC to Dreiser's home in Indiana during the summer of 1915, olive green paper boards with 1/4 blue cloth spine, 32 pencil and charcoal plated by Franklin Booth all present, 513 pages, untrimmed with gilt top edge. Book is Very Good plus some light wear to front board and corners showing a tad of carboard. nice gilt titles to front board and spine, tight and square, illustrated endpapers. No previous owner bookplate or writing. A most presentable copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000495
- Title
- A Hoosier Holiday
- Author
- Theodore Dreiser
- Illustrator
- Franklin Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lane Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Theodore Dreiser
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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