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Garden Rubbish and Other Country Bumps
by Sellar, W. C. And Yeatman, R. J. with Footnotes By Will Cupp
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. Book. Illus. by S. Dowling, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book in original unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with purple lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear; slight discoloration to gutter. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean with clean colorful decorated endpapers. Name of A. H. Herrick, Associate Editor - Garden Digest at top of half-title page. Title page done in three colors. Illustrations by S. Dowling. Farrar/Rinehart device on copyright page. 146 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (1.50 on front inside flap), small spot to spine, one short closed edge tear to rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A humorous romp that only gardeners will understand..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035026
- Title
- Garden Rubbish and Other Country Bumps
- Author
- Sellar, W. C. And Yeatman, R. J. with Footnotes By Will Cupp
- Illustrator
- S. Dowling, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- GARDENING HUMOR, COUNTRY LIFE, RURAL LIVING, W. C. SELLAR, HORTICULTURE, S. DOWLING
- Bookseller catalogs
- gardening/horticulture; Humor;
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About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
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