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Sporty Creek: A Novel About an Appalachian Boyhood
by Still, James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/near fine
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/near fine. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1977). 125pp, 8vo. Illustrated by Janet McCaffery. First Edition. Signed on first free endpaper by Still and warmly inscribed to Still's biographer Dean Cadle, "For Dean Cadle whose search into the literary mysteries of the author transcends biography. James Still June 1977." Above the inscription is Cadle's ownership signature. Laid in is a review slip/announcement for the book's publication. A very good copy in a fine jacket. End papers, boards, and review slip have a few small marks of discoloration, most likely from tape that has since been removed. Text block foxed. Jacket is fine.
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- Bookseller
- Old New York Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47750
- Title
- Sporty Creek
- Author
- Still, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Old New York Book Shop
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Atlanta, Georgia
About Old New York Book Shop
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- G
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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