Best-in-Books: Close to the Wind; It Seems like Yesterday; The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln; Profiles in Courage; My Family and other Animals
by John Harris, H.V. Kaltenborn, Ruth Painter Randall, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Durrell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1957. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/none, used, 382pp total. Interior clean no marks, binding tight. Slightest of shelf rubbing to exterior. Close to the Wind by John Harris is a complete novel; It Seems Like Yesterday by H.V. Kaltenborn is an excerpt and photo feature; The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall is the complete book; Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy is an excerpt; My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell is an excerpt. Colorful former owners bookplate pasted to the front paste-down
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- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020934
- Title
- Best-in-Books: Close to the Wind; It Seems like Yesterday; The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln; Profiles in Courage; My Family and other Animals
- Author
- John Harris, H.V. Kaltenborn, Ruth Painter Randall, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- JOHYN F. KENNEDY, GERALD DURRELL, JOHN HARRIS, NOVELS
Terms of Sale
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
Biblio member since 2012
TORRINGTON, Wyoming
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
We specialize in western history, gun knife and hunting titles. Also try to stock Wyoming history titles. We have a walk-in store on US Hwy 26/85 the most direct route to Fort Laramie National History site..We have what I think is the largest seleciton of weapons titles in SE Wyoming, both new and used. Always looking for good used weapons titles.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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