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The Land, The People
by Peden, Rachel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with burgundy lettering on cover, black and burgundy lettering on spine with orange and burgundy decoration. No fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings by Sidonie Coryn. 333 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, a couple of short edge tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A testament by the author of "Rural Free" to the family farm and to her own people, whose daily lives reflect man's eternal kinship with the land. An affectionate chronicle of Midwestern rural life..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027254
- Title
- The Land, The People
- Author
- Peden, Rachel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- COUNTRY LIVING, RURAL LIFE, RACHEL PEDEN, FIRST EDITION, SMALL FARM MIDWEST, AGRICULTURE, NATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture; Nature; Country Living;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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