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The Land
by SACKVILLE-WEST, V(ita)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Coy, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Later American edition, from English sheets. 12mo. Tan cloth with publisher's printed paper label on cover and spine. Front fly neatly excised, light foxing on several pages along the gutter, some separation at the gutters, very good and sound, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Pierpont Stackpole, possibly the aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett who was the commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole kept a diary of his time by Liggett's side that was published in 2009 titled, *In the Company of Generals: The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole* which provided insights into the American Expeditionary Forces.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 550061
- Title
- The Land
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, V(ita)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Coy
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Poetry, EnglishLiterature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Inscribed
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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