Scarlet Sister Mary ["Airplane Edition," Signed]
by [THE SOUTH] PETERKIN, Julia
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. 12mo (17.5cm). Flexible black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; black and white pictorial endpapers; 345,[1]pp. Author's signature on inserted leaf at front. A sound copy with mild rubbing at spine ends, visible surface abrasions and spotting to covers; just VG.
Peterkin, a white woman, wrote several works about the African-American experience. This novel, set among the Gullah people of the South Carolina Low Country, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Ethel Barrymore starred in a 1930 stage adaptation, in blackface. This "airplane edition," printed on thin India paper and bound in lightweight, flexible boards, was published less than 10 years after the first international commercial flights (in 1919, between the United States and Canada). [64131].
Peterkin, a white woman, wrote several works about the African-American experience. This novel, set among the Gullah people of the South Carolina Low Country, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Ethel Barrymore starred in a 1930 stage adaptation, in blackface. This "airplane edition," printed on thin India paper and bound in lightweight, flexible boards, was published less than 10 years after the first international commercial flights (in 1919, between the United States and Canada). [64131].
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64131
- Title
- Scarlet Sister Mary ["Airplane Edition," Signed]
- Author
- [THE SOUTH] PETERKIN, Julia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; The South;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...