Hostages to Fortune
by Christopher Morley
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Haverford, Pennsylvania: The Haverfordian, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Boards in quarter ochre cloth, gilt lettering on spine; papered sides with batik design. Facsimile inscription on flyleaf. Interior clean. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends and one corner; minor ink blemish on front panel; faded along spine; in an archival mylar sleeve. 121 pages. A collection of verse and prose from Morley's days at Haverford College, 1906-1910. He graduated from Haverford as valedictorian and then continued his studies at Oxford with a Rhodes scholarship.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014456
- Title
- Hostages to Fortune
- Author
- Christopher Morley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Haverfordian
- Place of Publication
- Haverford, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1925
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature, Haverford College,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...