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ADAM'S DAUGHTER
by WELLS, WELLS
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Chipped Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1934. Jacket chipped at extremities, and darkened at edges and spine. Book covers a bit darkened at edges. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on fron free endpaper. "A study of the dominance of woman-how she holds it, and what sh should do with it". (From front panel of jacket). From the blurb, "It is a woman's world. It always has been, and always will be". 425pp. A very clean and crisp copy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Chipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014675
- Title
- ADAM'S DAUGHTER
- Author
- WELLS, WELLS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Chipped Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Women, Women's Rights, Autograph
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Blurb
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