The Trouble Bush
by Miers, Earl Schenck
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good condition/Very Good Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1966. Very Good condition in a Very Good Dust Jacket. NOT price clipped ($5.95). A square, tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. "First Printing, October, 1966" is so stated on the copyright page, with no indications of any other printings. Autobiography of this journalist-editor-historian who overcame cerebral palsy to became a noted authority of Lincoln and the Civil War and the author of dozens of books. Includes much of interest on his friends in the worlds of authorship, publishing, and rare books including Paul Angle, Douglas Southall Freeman, Carl Purington Rollins, Alfred A. Knopf, Ralph Newman, Wright Howes, etc. Index. Bound in the original green cloth. From the Dust Jacket: "You produce books that sell hardly at all and some that sell 100,000 copies and one that sells 1,500,000 in just thirty days.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo. 342pp.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014612
- Title
- The Trouble Bush
- Author
- Miers, Earl Schenck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
- Size
- 8vo. 342pp
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About the Seller
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Henderson, Nevada
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