Butter at the Old Price: The Autobiography of Margerite de Angeli
by de Angeli, Marguerite
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VeryGood
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [1971]. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.25". First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering in illustrated dust jacket. Some light rubbing and chipping to corners and edges of DJ. Slight bumping to bottom edge of binding. Previous owner's marking and smudge on half-title page and along fore edge. Else, interiors clean and tight. Very Good in Good DJ. . VeryGood. Hardcover .
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- Bookseller
- Brattle Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31716
- Title
- Butter at the Old Price: The Autobiography of Margerite de Angeli
- Author
- de Angeli, Marguerite
- Book Condition
- Used - VeryGood
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc. [1971]
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Keywords
- Hardcover
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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