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A Living Gravestone
by Elisabeth Guldner (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
North Newton, KS: Mennonite Press, 1973 Mennonite Press, North Newton, KS. 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author as "Elis" on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light wear to tail and lower tips from shelving. DJ: Very Good -; closed tear at head; missing small piece at front lower tip; rubbing to spine and flap folds. Pictorial cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on the spine and front board. Laid in is a newspaper clipping about a Victorian House in Wichita the author lived in as a child. 225 pp 8vo. This is a family story that begins with who came to Wichita Kansas in the 1800s, who bought land in Bixby Oklahoma and raised a family there, of the military service in WWII of her three sons, and especially of Lt. William Herman Wilson, a fighter pilot who was lost and never recovered in North Africa. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008311
- Title
- A Living Gravestone
- Author
- Elisabeth Guldner (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Mennonite Press
- Place of Publication
- North Newton, KS
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wichita Kansas, Wichita Kansas History, Oklahoma history, Bixbie Oklahoma history, World War II, North Africa, fighter pilot, Marie Louise Hahn, Marie Louise Stackman, Herman Joseph Steinbuchel,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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