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Queer Books
by Pearson, Edmund
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Garden City, New York, U.S.A: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Doubleday, Doran, 1928 First Edition, so stated on copyright page. Hardcover Book in Good Condition, without Jacket. Frontispiece and 41 quite delightful illustration plates. Edmund Pearson discusses weird, curious, or eccentric books and authors-quite unusual. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brick red cloth, three gilt decorations like hinges, on each side of spine, quite clean and unmarked, spine heel frayed. spine head , hinge and edges rubbed, corners lightly scuffed. All edges rough cut. Sewn binding tight and solid; backstrap loosened from crash. Pages are toned, very clean, no markings of any kind. Contents: I. Temperance Novels, II. Making the Eagle Scream, III. Alonzo and Melissa, IV. The Tribe of Gifted Hopkins, V. The Unfortunate Lovers, VI. Genteel Behaviour, I, VII. Genteel Behaviour, II, VIII. Crochets, IX. Side-Whiskers and Seduction, X. The Baedeker of Banner Elk, XI. Lilies and Languors, XII. "From Sudden Death," I, XIII. "From Sudden Death," II, XIV. The Three Sisters, XV. A Yankee Casanova. 298 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1928, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, New York. .
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026886
- Title
- Queer Books
- Author
- Pearson, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE TEMPERANCE NOVELS ALONZO AND MELISSA
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