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Christy
by Marshall, Catherine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean burgundy paper-covered boards with blind-stamped lettering on cover, maroon cloth spine with crisp gold lettering. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean gold endpapers (small previous owner last name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper). 496 pages + "About the Author". Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (6.95 on front inside flap), no fading, small v-shaped chip at top edge of rear panel, a few additional small edge chips, small closed edge tears. Rear panel is large portrait of the author. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. First Edition of the classic novel about a nineteen-year-old girl who leaves are comfortable home to teach in a one-room schoolhouse in an isolated area of the Great Smoky mountains. Basis for a popular television series starring Kellie Martin, Tyne Daly, and Tess Harper..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029989
- Title
- Christy
- Author
- Marshall, Catherine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- CATHERINE MARSHALL, FIRST EDITION, NOVEL, FICTION, TEACHING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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