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Trees
by Richter, Conrad
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Mylar cover. Orange paper boards with dark blue cloth and pasted on title label on spine. Boards have light soil and sunned edges. Corners bumped with light rubbing. Blue top edge. Interior clean. This is a limited publisher's edition with the limitation page reading "This, Number 18 of a Special Edition of Two Hundred and Fifty-Five Copies of The Trees made by Alfred A. Knopf for His Friends goes with his Best Wishes to George Stevens." Stevens was a writer and publisher who got his start at Alfred A. Knopf. The Trees was the first of Conrad Richter's The Awakening Land trilogy of novels about a frontier family. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 302 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009358BT
- Title
- Trees
- Author
- Richter, Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
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Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...