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The Education of an American
by SULLIVAN, Mark
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. Thick, small 4to. Pp. 320. Frontis. photo portrait of Sullivan. Bound in full red cloth with gilt lettering and device stamped on spine. Faded dampstain to tail of spine and immediate area of front and rear cover. A clipping of a Sullivan article from the New York Herald Tribune, 1941, is tipped in to the front free endpaper. Offsetting from clipping to front pastedown. The price-clipped dust jacket shows dampstaining along spine, which is faded, and closed three-inch tear on front panel. (Please see photos.). In the article Sullivan reminiscences about life prior to rural electrification. Scarce first edition. Despite condition factors, this copy remains well bound and presentable. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable, archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3500
- Title
- The Education of an American
- Author
- SULLIVAN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- muckraker muckraking upton sinclair
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
Glossary
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- Cloth
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- Device
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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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