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Mantillas and Silver Spurs
by Fulling, Kay Painter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The North River Press, 1952. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth stamped and lettered in white, in publisher's white non price-clipped dust-jacket. 140 pages. Signed and inscribed by author to artist and sculptor Carey Boone Nelson whose extensive body of work includes sculptures shown in collections across each of the seven continents, and placed in museums, libraries and college campuses around the world. First edition. No previous ownership marks save author's inscription -- "To Carey Boone and her / charming husband, / I shall always have / loving memories of your / gracious hospitality on / Staten Island. / with affection, / Kay Fulling." Essentially a travel book on Spain, focusing more on the people than any attraction, architectural or historical. A clean, tight fresh and unmarked copy in a nice dust-jacket. A fine copy in a very good+ dust-jacket of a scarce title. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019493
- Title
- Mantillas and Silver Spurs
- Author
- Fulling, Kay Painter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The North River Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Travel, Spain
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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