Laughing Boy
by La Farge, Oliver
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good ++
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Bound in green cloth stamped in red. A beautiful copy of this,a very early printing of the author's first book (with 1929 on copyright page, but not on title page). This book has an orange band around the dust jacket that states "Pulizer Prize Winner". This book was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. The dust jacket maintains the $2.50 price, but is a later (but early) state. . Early Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good ++.
Synopsis
Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the clash between American culture and that of southwestern Native Americans. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5001768
- Title
- Laughing Boy
- Author
- La Farge, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize; Western Fiction
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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...
- Copyright page
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.