The Varmint
by Owen Johnson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Very Good HC in Good DJ. Yellow-green cloth over boards, pictorial cover design, black & red letters. Bright, clean covers & spine; very slightly rubbed at spine end corners; tightly bound; minor dusting on text block edges; owner's blind stamped, embossed initials (small) on title page; very clean interior. Off white DJ with red-orange pictorial design (replicating cover design), black letters. In Brodart-type mylar; lightly soiled/foxed; 2 inch by 3/4 inch chip missing at back cover top inner corner onto spine head. Publisher's address indicates 1900-1912 printing; copyright page states 'Published , July, 1910', which is the original Baker & Taylor print date. This title page differs from 1st edition in listing author's works including 'Tennessee Shad', which published 1911. So this printing was late 1911 or early 1912. 12mo, 396 pp; illustrated by F.R. Gruger.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13750
- Title
- The Varmint
- Author
- Owen Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: A.L. Burt & Co. ND (1912)
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- JUVENALIA, SPORTS, RURAL, SMALL TOWN, BOYS, GRUGER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Childrens;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....