The Buffer by RICE, Alice Hegan - 1929

New York: The Century Co., 1929 1st ed. 332pp. orig. olive cloth 12mo w/pictorial cover & gilt stamping: Good/no dj. The Kentucky novelist Alice Hegan Caldwell Rice (1870-1942) was most famous for her 1901 novel "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch."

The Century Co., 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. Second Printing. 332 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper with moderate tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends.

Grosset and Dunlap. The Buffer by Alice Hegan Rice (author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch) copyright 1929 by The Century Co.-this is a Grosset and Dunlap reprint-states Fourth printing, April 1929. Hardback 332 page green book with black lettering & decoration has some imperfections, but overall is in good to very good condition. Dust jacket has a tear on upper back edge and is missing some paper here & there-overall good, and in a Brodart protector. NOT AN EX-LIB!. Hard Cover. Good to very Good/Good.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Reprint.. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Reprint. Very Good+/Very Good+. Grosset & Dunlap edition in clean illustrated jacket. Clean green cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 332 pp. Illustrated dustjacket very slight wear to paper at top spine edge, no chips, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. By the author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", this is a humorous novel about a young woman with an exasperating family..

NY: Century; (1929). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First printing, near fine in a very good- dust jacket. Slight wear to the dark green cloth near the bottom of the spine, otherwise clean and tight. No names or other markings. The jacket is missing the bottom 2" from the spine, with smaller chips at edges. Colors are still fairly bright on the front panel. Later novel by the author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.

NY: Century, 1929. First printing. 8vo, pp. 332. Clipping of author's obit laid in. Cover little worn, o/w VG.

New York: The Century Co, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Very faint dampstains on the top and bottom page edges, near fine in a very good or better dust jacket, with toning and dampstaining on the spine and just a bit of edgewear.

New York: The Century Co., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. In Mylar cover. Out of print Bound in teal cloth. A beautiful copy, rare in dust jacket. Binding is cloth boards.