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Old Plantation Days
by Rutledge, Archibald
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Publisher's green cloth spine and gray boards. Very good (light spotting to verso of frontispiece)
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
[Cumberland, Maryland: The Eddy Press, 1905. First edition, signed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. Frontispiece and one plate (facing p. 25). 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (8 x 5-5/8 inches). Publisher's green cloth spine and gray boards. Very good (light spotting to verso of frontispiece). First edition, signed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. Frontispiece and one plate (facing p. 25). 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (8 x 5-5/8 inches). SIGNED. Author's first book, decidedly uncommon, and here signed by the author. Phillips, pp. 326-7, notes only the 1921 edition. OCLC: 1954885 (7 locations)
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 365936
- Title
- Old Plantation Days
- Author
- Rutledge, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece and one plate (facing p. 25). 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (8 x 5-5/8 inches)
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's green cloth spine and gray boards. Very good (light spotting to verso of frontispiece)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, signed by the author on the verso of the frontisp
- Publisher
- The Eddy Press
- Place of Publication
- [Cumberland, Maryland
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- American | South Carolina | Poetry | Hunting / Shooting | South Carolina | First Book | Archibald Rutledge
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Literature; Sports & Games;
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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