Country Place
by Petry, Ann
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 266pp, gray cloth boards with titles on spine and front board in black and thin green horizontal stripes running around the front board and spine of the volume. Back board is blank. Tape residue on front and rear pasted down endpapers. Stamp from previous bookshop on front free and rear pasted down endpaper. Text block is clean with slight foxing in margins of toned pages. Illustrated pictorial d.j. with titles on spine and front panel in white. Tape residue on front and rear flyleaf. Unclippied pictorial jacket has tape residue, chips along the extremities."The destructive effect of a summer storm on a Connecticut town is exemplified in a single family when a returned veteran finds that his wife has been unfaithful." . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029606
- Title
- Country Place
- Author
- Petry, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Connecticut Infidelity Marriage African American Novel
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
All sales are net. Prepayment is required. Postage in USA: items will be sent Media Mail Rate ($4) unless Priority Mail is requested ($6-$8). Postage for unusually heavy or valuable books may be more. Please contact us for international rates. Books may be returned within 10 days of receipt. Credit cards accepted: VISA, MC, AMEX, Discover.
About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....