The Woman Within: The Autobiography of Ellen Glasgow
by Glasgow, Ellen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good ++
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company , 1954. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, xii +307 pages, plus black-and-white photographs;---elegant, attractive book in teal cloth covers with the author's embossed initials on the front cover and very bright and clear silver gilt spine lettering, very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ gently bumped along top and bottom edges, no chips or tears, some tiny speckle spots of unknown origin to the yellow oval on the front panel which remains bright and colourful in blue, green, yellow and white, now in archival quality mylar protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good ++.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044168
- Title
- The Woman Within: The Autobiography of Ellen Glasgow
- Author
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- NONFICTION American AUTHOR WRITER AUTOBIOGRAPHY LITERARY BIOGRAPHY Social History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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Eric James
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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