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How to be a Hermit or A Bachelor Keeps House
by Will Cuppy
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation , 1937 Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York. 1934. Hardcover. Stated 7th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace shelfwear to tail and tips. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight sunfade to spine. Green cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on the spine with decorations on the spine and front board. 328 pp 8vo. The focus of the book is the author's time living in a shack on a small island, Jones Island, off Long Island's south shore, from 1921 to 1929. The nearby Coast Guard crew helped him repair the shack and shared supplies and recipes with him. In 1929 the encroachment of the Jones State Park forced him off the island, but a dispensation from the head of the parks department allowed him to keep the shack, and he continued to visit the island until his death. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
These gently humorous essays show the difficulty of living alone, dependent on the mercy of the coast guardsmen and the seasonal visitors to the island, who left behind miscellaneous canned goods when they left. He quotes the acerbic comments of his only companion, a black cat.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016657
- Title
- How to be a Hermit or A Bachelor Keeps House
- Author
- Will Cuppy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- humor, wit, bachelor living, Jones Island, Hermit, living alone, Coast Guard,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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