Suds in Your Eye
by Mary Lasswell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€16.81€11.77
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Miflin Company, 1967 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. c1941, 1967 (?). Hardcover. Stated 51st Impression. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.50); wear to tips; small missing pieces at head, tail, and top of front panel; sunfading to spine. Lime green cloth boards and spine with bright red lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split.183 pp 12mo.This book is the comic tale of three lonely women, Mrs. Feely, the owner of the junkyard with a wall made of beer bottles, Miss Tinkham, an unemployed teacher, and Mrs. Rasmussen, A Norwegian women who could make a wonderful meal with the simplest of ingredients. Miss Tinkham, a very shy spinster, and Mrs. Rasmeussen, who is abandoned by her children, come to room with Mrs. Feely in her Junk Yard called Noah's Ark, in San Diego before World War II. They embark on several adventures and really become a family. The book illustrated by the late George Price and is a hilarious romp, a bit on the racy side for its time. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016852
- Title
- Suds in Your Eye
- Author
- Mary Lasswell
- Illustrator
- George Price
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Miflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- World War II, United States Navy, humor, humorous fiction, Mrs. Feeley, junk yard, Mrs. Rasmussen, Miss Tinkham, comic fiction, beer,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Brodart
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- Shelfwear
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
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