Lady Can Do
by Merwin, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages; HC/DJ. Early reprint. Soundly bound and neat in original wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Bound in red thatched cloth with titles in black to cover and spine; publisher's yellow top stain uniform and still bright. Binding a little shelf cocked in the spine; mild dust spotting to page block edges. Dust jacket with light shelf rubbing and wear at spine ends and edges. Uncommon in dust jacket. VG/VG .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40847
- Title
- Lady Can Do
- Author
- Merwin, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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