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Boon Island
by Roberts, Kenneth
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. Presentation Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good. Signed presentation edition of Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts.. Octavo, 275pp, [9]. Beige cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "Presentation Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $3.75 retail price on front flap, a touch of sunning to spine, chipping to spine, slight soiling to covers, a good example. Signed by the author on front flyleaf. Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) wrote historical fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12312
- Title
- Boon Island
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Illustrator
- Signed presentation edition of Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presentation Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- kenneth roberts, kenneth roberts first edition, kenneth roberts signed, kenneth roberts black magic, kenneth roberts arundel, early america, kenneth roberts benedict arnold, historical fiction, saturday evening post, pulitzer prize winner, roberts tr
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- Fine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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