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If the Gods Laugh
by Forbes, Rosita
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macaulay Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges, chip at the lower-right corner of the front panel. Brown buckram with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, foxed at the edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper. A novel of romance and adventure as "the most formidable dowager in aristocratic Rome" sets off with Colonel Navarro to marry and travel Africa.
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- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6942
- Title
- If the Gods Laugh
- Author
- Forbes, Rosita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macaulay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Romance, Adventure, Travel, Africa, Upper Class, Colonization, Libya
Terms of Sale
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All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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