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The Secret Way
by Gale, Zona
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Zona Gale on front free endpaper with a length inscription to writer and historian H. Ogden Wintermute at his hometown, "'And when shall we / be touched with light / To know the things that are...' [signed] Zona Gale, Mount Vernon 1932." x, 118 pp. Publisher's boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with small dampstain to spine panel, unclipped ($1.50), light edge wear. Rare in jacket. Gale was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940860
- Title
- The Secret Way
- Author
- Gale, Zona
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize, signed. Henry Ogden Wintermute, female poets, America, poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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.
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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...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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