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The Summer Land. (SIGNED)
by Davis, Burke
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. 242 pages. Hardcover with a green dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket shows rubbing and wear and is not price-clipped. Jacket has a 1 1/2 inc tear at the top left corner of the front panel, and the foot of the jacket spine is chipped. Stated First Printing on the copyright page. A sound copy; endpapers and title page are foxed, but the text is clean. INSCRIBED by the author to North Carolina historian Lindley Butler, "To Lindley, who know what this is all about, with admiration & friendship. / Burke Davis / Patrick County, Va., / 16 August, '98." Also signed on the front flyleaf by Lindley Butler and one other person.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045968
- Title
- The Summer Land. (SIGNED)
- Author
- Davis, Burke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1965; Burke Davis; North Carolina; The South; Fiction; Signed; Lindley Butler; Autographed; Inscribed.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies; North Carolina Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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