Pedlar's Progress. The Life of Bronson Alcott
by Shepard, Odell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co,, 1937. First trade edition, May 1937, with a personalized inscription to Dr. T. W. Worthun signed by the author on May 16, 1937 on the front free endpaper. Good to very good condition in tan cloth printed in black and gilt, frontis portrait in olive green and black, no dustjacket. The book has some light wear including shelf soil and rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no other names or markings.. Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039995
- Title
- Pedlar's Progress. The Life of Bronson Alcott
- Author
- Shepard, Odell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co,
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT FAMILY BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography; Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
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Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Gilt
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.