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On the Long Tide
by [TEXAS FICTION] KREY, Laura
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; 642pp. Tight, straight and unmarked, with top-stain deep and unfaded; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly sunned and edge-rubbed with a short closed tear to upper margin of front panel; Very Good. An epic novel of Texas in the years following the Mexican War, set in the Brazos River Valley.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62916
- Title
- On the Long Tide
- Author
- [TEXAS FICTION] KREY, Laura
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mexico;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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