The Happy End
by Williams, Ben Ames
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Lyon, Mississippi: The Derrydale Press, 1991. Limited Edition of 1991. Fine in dark blue bonded leather covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with a gilt decoration on the front board with all edges of the text block gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. A collection of nine short stories about hunting and fishing with a forward by Kenneth Roberts. One of only 2,500 copies printed. The original edition was published in 1939 in a printing of only 1,250 copies. With illustrations by Churchill Ettinger. 240 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB20481
- Title
- The Happy End
- Author
- Williams, Ben Ames
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited Edition of 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- Lyon, Mississippi
- Date Published
- 1991
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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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...