THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY.: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Signed First Edition complete in 389 bright pages with some illustrations. Bound in red cloth measuring 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches with light fading to the spine and lightly rubbed edges including spine ends. Signed / dated on the 2nd free endpage - verso of the frontis. Intact though worn and soiled dust jacket with small hole at center of spine. - From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature!; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
A dry snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white harmony - roof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw; only where the line of factories followed the big bend of the frozen river, their distant chimneys like exclamation points on a blank page, was there a first threat against the supreme whiteness.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hoffman Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77198
- Title
- THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY.
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Booth Tarkington Signed, Indiana
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Soiled
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- Verso
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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