LOOKING AFTER SANDY. A SIMPLE ROMANCE
by Turnbull, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914. 345, [1] pages. Original blue cloth lettered in gold with small color illustration mounted on front cover. [19.2 cm.] Very good plus in like dust jacket. Light foxing to plates and facing pages. Spine panel of jacket a little sunned and with light wear to ends, small tear to rear panel. Still an attractive copy. Oval cutout on front panel of jacket reveals mounted plate on cover of book (as issued). Early printing, issued the same year as the first. [Date code indicates September, 1914; another copy found with the code for July, 1914.] Complete with frontispiece and three plates by William van Dresser. Author's second book. Basis for the 1939 film, "Bad Little Angel," starring Virginia Weidler. Margaret Turnbull (1872-1942), a Scottish immigrant to the U.S., was a novelist and screenwriter. She wrote or provided the scenarios for over fifty films from the 1910's to the 1930's.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000167
- Title
- LOOKING AFTER SANDY. A SIMPLE ROMANCE
- Author
- Turnbull, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE - U.S. - 20TH CENTURY; WOMEN;
Terms of Sale
Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
We offer a full refund, including the purchase price and the original shipping cost, in the event an item is not as described in the listing, provided that we receive the returned item within 30 days after delivery. We will refund the purchase price, but not the shipping, for any other reason, within ten (10) days of delivery, provided we are given prior notification of the return (please email or phone) and all items are returned in the condition in which they were received.
About the Seller
Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Durham, North Carolina
About Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
An online shop focusing on Americana, particularly books pertaining to the South, and offering rare, scholarly, and antique books on a variety of other subjects. Proprietor David J. Eilenberger worked for over five years at respected firms in the A.B.A.A. before establishing the company in 2010. In addition to books, we are interested in acquiring broadsides, ephemera, 19th-century photographs, and manuscripts. Member Independent Online Booksellers Association since 2017.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Plate
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- Sunned
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