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Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod
by Roberts, Kenneth
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Near fine/good. Signed first edition of Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod by Kenneth Roberts.. Octavo, 310pp, [3]. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Copyright date matches date on title page, with two printings listed. Solid text block, all images listed are present, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, some chipping along edges, a touch of shelf wear, light sunning along spine, a good example. Signed by the author on title page: "For Kenneth Leathers / with best wishes / Kenneth Roberts / 1951." Kenneth Roberts was a historical fiction writer who won a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12157
- Title
- Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod by Kenneth Roberts.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- kenneth roberts, kenneth roberts first edition, kenneth roberts signed, march to quebec signed, kenneth roberts arundel, early america, kenneth roberts benedict arnold, historical fiction, saturday evening post, pulitzer prize winner, war of 1812
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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- Chipping
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