Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with title label mounted at upper spine, and publisher's logo embossed on front cover; orange topstain (first issue, per Ahearn); dustjacket; xiv,347,[5]pp. A few small patches of paper adhesed to crown and base of spine, hint of offsetting to pastedowns, else cloth and contents are quite bright and clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is lighlty edgeworn and dust-soiled, gently spine-sunned, with some faint dampstaining to spine ends corresponding with the adhesed paper on the book; small scuff at mid-spine and a small tear at upper rear joint, both neatly tape-mended on verso; Very Good. Anderson's second collection of short stories, all set in the American midwest. Includes the long stories "Unused," "The Man Who Became A Woman" and "A Chicago Hamlet;" the last of these is an extract from Anderson's unpublished early novel "An Ohio Pagan." HANNA 75.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51631
- Title
- Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life
- Author
- ANDERSON, Sherwood
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B.W. Huebsch
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.