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Carry Nation (Signed)
by Asbury, Herbert (1891-1963)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topsta
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topstain. Old adhesive residue on front pastedown, mostly hidden by front jacket flap. Minor extremity rubs, quarter-sized dampstain to top edge of textblock. Jacket has edge chipping up to 1/4" deep at spine ends and edges of front panel. Separation along lower 2 1/2" of front panel fore edge fold. Still an attractive, overall very good copy in a good dust jacket.. Black and white plates. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet.<br /> <br /> This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card from him and his wife laid in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1335
- Title
- Carry Nation (Signed)
- Author
- Asbury, Herbert (1891-1963)
- Illustrator
- Black and white plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topsta
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Prohibition, temperance, signed books, anti-saloon, hatchet, kansas, morality, carrie nation
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Politics; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Annapolis, Maryland
About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
We buy and sell quality used and out-of-print books, with an emphasis on Americana, Military and Naval History, and Nautical material. But we have many good books in a variety of subjects. We are located in historic Annapolis, Maryland.
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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