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Going Native
by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1940. This is a second printing copy from 1940. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, original price of $3.00 is printed on the top corner of the front flap. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Jacket has edge wear and light creases to the top edge, chip wear to the head and heel of the spine of about 1/8 inch, 1/2 inch closed tear and crease mark to the bottom edge of the front panel, edge wear to the right side of the back panel and some rubbing wear marks on the spine. 'Fish out of water' satire about Irish born Ousley, who moves to England, hilarious shenanigans ensue. who 294 pages, rough edged text block, blue coarse textured cloth covered boards with the title and author name on both the spine and cover. A few dots of edge wear to the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the corners. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. No writing on the text pages, no former ownership marks. The binding is tight and square. Edges of the text block are relatively clean considering the age of the book. Blue topstain of the text has faded. A solid copy. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-216
- Title
- Going Native
- Author
- Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloane & Pearce
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- satire, Ireland, 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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