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Ramona
by Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good (Minus)
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1930. Helen Hunt's romantic recreatin of Native American life has retained its immense popularity since its first publication in 1884. This is a Near Fine coy of a reprinted edition. No publication date; circa 1930; lsscommon than the earlier printings. Brick red cloth binding with titling and decorations in black on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 424 pages, with a two-page publisher catalog in the rear. Blue topstain; bookplate on the half-title. Hints of rub to margins and some spotting to the fore-edge; else Fine. The wonderfully illustrated dustjacket is Very Good.(Minus), with chipping along the edges, which have been repaired with celo tape on the inside. In an archival plastic protector.. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good (Minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson, is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. Overall, it has had more than 300 printings, been made into four film versions, and has been performed as an outdoor play annually since 1923.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006715
- Title
- Ramona
- Author
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (Minus)
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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