Spencer's Mountain
by Hamner, Earl
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Dial Press, 1961. 5th Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. [247 pages. Hardcover rebound in old red buckram. An ex-library copy with full markings. New endpapers are glued a little over the gutter onto the title page. The binding is worn but sound. Text is toned and appears to be closely trimmed at the top edge. Stated "First Edition, Fifth Printing" on the copyright page.
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Details
- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 051411
- Title
- Spencer's Mountain
- Author
- Hamner, Earl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th Printing
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1961; Earl Hamner; The Waltons; Fiction; Novel; Virginia; Virginian.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Southern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
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