Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First Edition. First printing Near fine in reddish cloth covered boards with dark brown text on the spine and on the front board with a possible remainder mark on the lower edge of the text block. In a very good+ but price clipped dust jacket with wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the fore corners of the panels. A collection of twelve short stories written by the author for a number of magazines to include Esquire, Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. 256 pages of text.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB15928
Title: The Soldier's Peaches
Author: Cloete, Stuart
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1959

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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...
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....
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