Night Rider
by WARREN, Robert Penn
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth, titles stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; 460pp. Spine mildly sunned, else a tight, straight, Very Good or better copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown of F. Cudworth Flint, Dartmouth College.
Warren's first novel, set in the Kentucky Black Patch Tobacco Wars of the early 20th century. HANNA 3690. COAN p.66.
Warren's first novel, set in the Kentucky Black Patch Tobacco Wars of the early 20th century. HANNA 3690. COAN p.66.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60600
- Title
- Night Rider
- Author
- WARREN, Robert Penn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; The South; Social Fiction; Appalachia; Rural Labor;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.