The Trouble at Hungerfords
by Harris, Cyril
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, SIGNED by author, with author-signed letter also laid in; in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean hardcover book, light beige boards with burgundy lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, spine lightly bumped. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Slight lean to text block. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "For Mabel and Harold with the best wishes of their old friend, Cyril Harris - 20 March 1953.' Handwritten, signed letter laid in (in which the author thanks Mabel for taking the photo which appears on the back of the jacket). 274 pages. Clean bright illustratated dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, one closed corner edge tear, very slight fading to spine; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel set in 1850 in Peekskill, New York, during worker tension amidst Irish miners..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034192
- Title
- The Trouble at Hungerfords
- Author
- Harris, Cyril
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL NOVEL, FICTION, PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK, IRISH MINERS, FIRST EDITION, CYRIL HARRIS, UPSTATE LOCAL INTEREST, ASSOCIATION COPY
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED Editions;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
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- Inscribed
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- Price Clipped
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