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Laughing Boy
by La Farge, Oliver
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good DJ
- Seller
-
Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Edition Not Specified. Good/Very Good DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Pulitzer Prize winning novel about Navajo, Native American life. Not a first, but early edition. $2.50 price on front flap, 1929 is only date on copyright page but not on title page. Brown cloth hard covers with orange lettering. Very clean inside and out, slight bumping, to corners & top/bottom spine edges, binding cracked or starting at a couple of places though still very good, no loose pages, all pages fully intact, endpages browned. Dustjacket has edge wear with a few tiny tears, states "Eleventh Large Printing" on front cover, in protective mylar. Quotes from Owen Wister on back panel.
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
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F40216
- Title
- Laughing Boy
- Author
- La Farge, Oliver
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good DJ
- Edition
- Edition Not Specified
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 302pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
Terms of Sale
Heritage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives not as described or damaged.
About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
Glossary
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
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