Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. In decorated light blue paperboard covers w/navy ship illustration and lettering, front cover. In blue quarter cloth binding, sunned at spine. Volume solid and tight, but with foxing, especially at top edge and on covers. Likely insertion of acidic paper has left stains at title page and on facing verso of previous page. With penciled presentation remarks, front free endpaper. Author is noted for his 'Parnassus on Wheels'; this novel first published 1922. ; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; 215 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 73747
Title: Where the Blue Begins
Author: MORLEY, Christopher
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1923

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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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...