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Enter a Strange Country: A Novella by F. McKelden Smith
by SMITH, F. McKelden (pseudonym of Francis Newman Smith)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, (1974). First edition. 8vo, 79 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slightly rubbed, endpapers & pastedowns browned from binder's glue, brief gift inscription from the author's wife at ffep, otherwise Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, lightly toned, with brief edge wear including a couple of short tears.
"A rollicking yarn about growing up in New York City at the turn of the century" which includes girls, summers in Maine, & World War I."
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000541
- Title
- Enter a Strange Country: A Novella by F. McKelden Smith
- Author
- SMITH, F. McKelden (pseudonym of Francis Newman Smith)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Exposition Press
- Place of Publication
- Jericho, New York
- Date Published
- (1974)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- F. McKelden Smith, Francis Newman Smith, New York City, Maine World War I, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature, Fiction, Poetry;
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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