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A Long Fourth and Other Stories
by Taylor, Peter; Introduction by Robert Penn Warren
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1948. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo. 166 pages. Hardcover in yellow and grey dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and worn and has a ring mark on front cover. The jacket is not price-clipped, and the copyright page states "First Edition." The foot of the spine and the bottom corner the jacket's front panel is chipped. There is also a V-shaped chip at top of jacket's rear panel. Black cloth binding has spotting at top edges of boards. Original owner's pencil inscription reads, "Mary Stamp Subline (?) / from Nancy Hale Bowers / October, 1948." Nancy Hale Bowers was an American novelist and short story writer. Text has light toning at edges. The author was an English teacher at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now known as UNCG).
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044906
- Title
- A Long Fourth and Other Stories
- Author
- Taylor, Peter; Introduction by Robert Penn Warren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1948; Peter Taylor; Robert Penn Warren; Literature; Fiction; Short Stories; The South; Southern; UNCG; Women's College of Greensboro; North Carolina.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Southern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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