A FRIEND OR TWO
by Nesbit, Wilbur D
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: P.F. Volland Company,, 1915. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Fine or better copy in near fine two piece box. Assumed first edition. Book appears unread: pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. Incredibly well preserved copy. Two piece box is slightly sunned at front, two 1/4 inch teas to one side of box and box cover flap. Original mustard colored boards with colored panel woodblock illustration and embossed copper titles on a copper panel; housed in the publisher's box with the same colored panel illustration. 12mo (5 1/4 by 6 inches). 12 pages with illustrated endpapers. The mid-western poet and humorist's inspirational poetry printed on one side of double leaves folded in Japanese style with opposing woodblock illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000646
- Title
- A FRIEND OR TWO
- Author
- Nesbit, Wilbur D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Publisher
- Chicago: P.F. Volland Company,
- Date Published
- 1915
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About Modern First Editions Boston
Growing collection of 900 + books, mostly from 60s, 70s and 80s. Vast majority of books are first editions, many of them first printings and signed. All books are from a private collection and are being sold now for the first time.Unless noted otherwise: books are without marks, original prices are not clipped and there are no former library books.Please contact me directly for commission free sales.
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- Sunned
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- Leaves
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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