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A Thread of Blue Denim; A Farm Woman's Celebration of Country Living
by Patricia Penton Leimbach
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0139202803
- ISBN 13
- 9780139202803
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£7.47£5.23
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About This Item
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974 Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1974. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottoms. DJ: Good; clear mylar with orange lettering; NOT Price Clipped ($7.95); rubbing to panels; chipping missing small pieces at head; closed tear at top of front panel. Dark blue tweed boards and spine with white lettering on the spine. 240 pp 8vo. Life on a farm today is the theme that runs through this patchwork of essays which the author stitches the allure of country living. The author gives the full blueprint for a woman's life on the land. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011828
- Title
- A Thread of Blue Denim; A Farm Woman's Celebration of Country Living
- Author
- Patricia Penton Leimbach
- Illustrator
- R. Bruce Laughlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0139202803
- ISBN 13
- 9780139202803
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- farm life, farm wife's live, country living, living off the land, farm animals, crop growing, A Country Wife, baking bread, potato planter, Women's Lib, rural life,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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