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Years of Grace
by Margaret Ayer Barnes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Years of Grace" by Margaret Ayer Barnes. First edition, fourteenth printing, August 1931, as stated on the copyright page. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Novel (Fiction). Measures 5.5" x 7.75", 581 pages. Comes with a thirteenth printing dust jacket. The dust jacket is in fair condition. Toning to the jacket with chips and tears at the edges. Three inch closed tear to the top of the front panel. Heavy paper loss at the spine, affecting the publisher and title. Tape repairs made to the verso of the jacket to reattach the spine to the rear panel. The original price of $2.50 is present on the front flap. The book is in very good plus condition. The black cloth boards are well preserved with light shelf wear. Rubbing to the spine edges and titling. The textblock is clean, bright, unmarked, and complete. Included with the book is an original newspaper clipping with the photograph of the author and a caption that reads: "Mrs. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Chicago novelist, who will speak at the first session of the Conference on Major Problems at the Palmer House tomorrow under the auspices of The Tribune". There is also a Chicago train ticket stub from September 4th with the same age toning as the newspaper clipping. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(Pul-49).
Synopsis
Years of Grace is a 1930 novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1931.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002811
- Title
- Years of Grace
- Author
- Margaret Ayer Barnes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Pulitzer
Terms of Sale
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Ernestoic Books
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Clarence, New York
About Ernestoic Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelf Wear
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- 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....
- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
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- New
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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