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Artillery of Time (SIGNED)
by Smith, Chard Powers
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing (with "A" on copyright page), SIGNED by the author, in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean rust cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "For Mrs. F. R. Kellogg With the author's best wishes - Chard Powers Smith - October 23 - 1939." All pages are clean, with rose red top-stained upper page edges. 853 pages. Dust jacket is clean, not price clipped (2.75 on front inside flap), has edge wear and light rubbing, small corner chips, short closed tears; photo and bio of author on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel set in a New York State town in the 1850's, when the drift away from the farms began and the old agricultural America was changing, moving toward business and industry. The eternal conflict between the materialist and the idealist fills the story as it moves toward a climactic scene on the battlefield of Gettysburg..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034003
- Title
- Artillery of Time (SIGNED)
- Author
- Smith, Chard Powers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- NOVEL, FICTION, FIRST EDITION, 1850'S AMERICA, CHARD POWERS SMITH, SIGNED BY AUTHOR
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- SIGNED Editions;
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Inscribed
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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