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Cotton in My Sack
by Lenski, Lois
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1949. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lenski, Lois. Another book both written & illustrated by this Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator, this one dedicated to "my beloved Arkansas cotton children,'' & SIGNED by Lenski (her name only) to half-title page. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1949 (with statement), this hardcover octavo has soft rose-colored cloth over boards stamped with a silver cotton boll & lettered in silver to front & spine. 191 pages + decorative endpapers. Condition is VG: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages lightly tanned, especially around edges, but completely unmarked save for former owner's bookplate in front matter. Modest rubbing & a bit of fraying to corners & spine tips. No DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023519
- Title
- Cotton in My Sack
- Author
- Lenski, Lois
- Illustrator
- Lenski, Lois
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing 1st Printing
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia/New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Arkansas cotton picking children rural south southern fiction signed first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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