Georgia Boy
by Caldwell, Erskine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. War Edition. "When this charming story in the Mark Twain tradition was added to the long and impressive list of Erskine Caldwell's serious books about the South, critics and readers alike were taken by surprise, for Georgia Boy is above all else an invitation to laughter." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Previous owner's signature on free endpaper. Book's spine is slightly loose, small bumps on both ends of spine, normal edge wear, age spots on fore-edge and both endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has small tears along head and tail edges, shelf wear, two half-inch open tears at spine head, one-inch open tear on fore-edge of back cover, spine is faded, tanned, price-clipped. Tape on inside of jacket at stress points. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 239 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3765
- Title
- Georgia Boy
- Author
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan & Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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