THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
by BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. Spine sunned to gray. Lettered and bordered in orange. A reading copy with some cover wear and soiling. Text is quite clean. 359pp.. First Edition. Black Cloth. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014592
- Title
- THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
- Author
- BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear and Soiling
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Literature, Theater
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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- Octavo
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- Sunned
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- Reading Copy
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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