They Stooped to Folly
by GLASGOW, Ellen
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition. Third printing. Original red cloth, stamped in yellow, no topstain, in original dust jacket; orange and white patterned endpapers; [x],351pp. Straight and tight, mildly rubbed, a few spots of foxing: Good or better. Jacket trimmed at corners but still priced ($2.50), rubbed, with long tears at spine and flap folds and horizontal tear across front, some mended with archival tape, several old stapestains: Fair. A critically-favored novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Virginia author. KELLY pp. 72-3.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56854
- Title
- They Stooped to Folly
- Author
- GLASGOW, Ellen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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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Glossary
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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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....