Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919
by WISTER, Owen
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1930. First Edition. First printing, May 1930. Octavo (24cm). Dark blue cloth in yellow dust jacket; [vi],372,[2]pp; frontispiece and 15 black and white halftone plates. Remnants of partially removed bookplate to front pastedown. Sound and clean but lightly rubbed at edges; former owner's name on f.f.e.p. scratched off, leaving small holes and scuffing to the following leaf; minor foxing to title page, else clean: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped and rubbed, with minor chips and tears, dustsoil to rear panel and browning to spine: just Very Good. An account of Wister's relationship with his Harvard classmate Theodore Roosevelt. FPAA IV p.395.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60282
- Title
- Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919
- Author
- WISTER, Owen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...