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Laughing Boy
by LA FARGE, Oliver
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good in original yellow cloth, spots along the upper covers and fading to the spine, and a poor illustrated dust jacket that is
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good in original yellow cloth, spots along the upper covers and fading to the spine, and a poor illustrated dust jacket that is missing portions of the spine and has significant chipping on the upper edges.. Duodecimo. 5.5 x 7.75 in. viii, 302 pp. Signed by the author's wife on the half-title page: "For Doris + Willard, with best love - Wanda La Farge December 8, 1929." This novel was the winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize.
Synopsis
Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the clash between American culture and that of southwestern Native Americans. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3183
- Title
- Laughing Boy
- Author
- LA FARGE, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in original yellow cloth, spots along the upper covers and fading to the spine, and a poor illustrated dust jacket that is
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2019
Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
We are a brick-and-mortar independent bookstore in West Asheville, North Carolina.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
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