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Tales of a Wayward Inn
by Frank Case
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Stokes, New York, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. FRANK CASE. Tales of a Wayward Inn, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1938, together with a signed letter to a customer. Octavo, first edition, pp. ix, 390, navy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt illustration on front, top edge tinted blue, illustrated plates, lacking the dust jacket, book label on front paste-down, gift inscription on front paste-down, inscription from Case on the half-title, ALS from Case tipped in at the back. Case inscribed the book to a longtime customer, Andrew Blackmore, whose wife also inscribed it to him. The letter from Case is to the wife, discussing the Blackmores' plans to retire to a ranch in Arizona, concluding "We all work too hard in this country. What for?" That's the way Case wrote the book -- clearly and directly. It's his biography as the owner of the Algonquin Hotel, from the early struggles through the heydays with its famous clientele. Condition of this book: Minor soiling to the bottom edge, overall very good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; United States; 1930s; Antiquarian & Rare. Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54659. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54659
- Title
- Tales of a Wayward Inn
- Author
- Frank Case
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Business, Finance & Marketing; United States; 1930s; Antiquarian & Rare. Inscribed by Author Frank Case Tales of a Wayward Inn
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
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