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College on Horseback
by Hall, Esther Greenacre
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained, spine cocked and waterstained at heel, owner name and address on front flyleaf.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas. Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained, spine cocked and . waterstained at heel, owner name and address on front flyleaf.. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown decorative cloth. Illustrated endpapers. Inscribed by the author to her son on the front flyleaf: "Rich dear - Stanford is the background of this book. Love, Mummy, Esther Greenacre Hall". A young adult novel about a young woman who leaves her Colorado ranch home with a small bequest from her deceased father to enable her to study at "Sierra College" to become a doctor. Many illustrations by Paul Brown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37026
- Title
- College on Horseback
- Author
- Hall, Esther Greenacre
- Illustrator
- Paul Brown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained, spine cocked and waterstained at heel, owner name and address on front flyleaf.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harrison Smith & Robert Haas
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- HORSE Books, 1930s Children's Books, HORSES Fiction, Stanford University
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
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