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Stranger to the Shore
by Dodson, Kenneth
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair/fair
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Fair/fair. Hardcover 1st in jacket. Signed and inscribed by Dodson on the half-title page, "For Norma & Donald Yeomans with best wishes from your Uncle Royce's next door neighbor, Kenneth Dodson." Above the author's inscription is a gift inscription from Royce to the couple mentioned. A fair to good copy with staining from moisture to the lower quarter of the front board (no impact on the pages or text) and bending at the spine tips. Corners bumped. Previous owner's stamp to the front pastedown and some darkening to the rear endpapers. Text is clean and unmarked in a solid binding. The dustjacket also has dampstaining to the lower portions of the panels and chipping and short tears to the upper edges - now protected in mylar. $3.95 price point intact on the front flap and a charming picture of the author on the rear panel. 324 pp., the author's follow up to his hugely successful "Away All Boats."
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- Bookseller
- Tangible Tales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1377
- Title
- Stranger to the Shore
- Author
- Dodson, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Fiction Literature Novel World War II Two Chile Military Historical Away All Boats Signed Autographed First Editions
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Historical; FICTION / War & Military; Fiction;
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
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- Edges
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Inscribed
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