Place Called Estherville
by CALDWELL, Erskine
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [x],244,[2]pp. Light wear to spine ends, some faint mottling to cloth; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few small tears and attendant creases at crown and upper front panel; Very Good+. A novel recounting the "unhappy experiences of a young mulatto brother and sister in a small Georgia town" (HANNA 567).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55931
- Title
- Place Called Estherville
- Author
- CALDWELL, Erskine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan, & Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- The South; Social Fiction;
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...