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Out of This Furnace
by Bell, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/About Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. First Edition. Very Good/About Good. First edition. [viii], 413 pp. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in red. Very Good with moderate foxing to cloth and edges, in well-worn original jacket, About Good condition with chip missing from tail with tear and some associated creasing, smaller chip in top of back panel, edge wear, spine sunned, some tape damage to verso and two tiny mends with archival tissue to verso as well. A homely example of the scarce dust jacket. A notable novel of Slovak immigrant life in Pennsylvania steel mills, spanning three generations.
Synopsis
Out of This Furnace is an historical novel and the best-known work of the American writer Thomas Bell (1903–1961). The novel is set in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along the Monongahela River. It was first published in 1941 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140937137
- Title
- Out of This Furnace
- Author
- Bell, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- About Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Rideout novels, Slovak, steel mills, Eastern European immigrants, fiction, Rust Belt
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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