Thunder in the Earth
by [SOCIAL FICTION] [OIL INDUSTRY] [TEXAS] LANHAM, Edwin
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570p. A few small spots to backstrip; mild rubbing to bottom edges of boards, else Near Fine. In original dustjacket, unclipped but with light overall rubbing and a brief (ca 3/4") closed tear to upper margin of rear panel. A very good copy overall. A novel of the Texas oil industry. Somewhat uncommon, especially in jacket; this a solid and attractive copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13424
- Title
- Thunder in the Earth
- Author
- [SOCIAL FICTION] [OIL INDUSTRY] [TEXAS] LANHAM, Edwin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- L&R2022
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Oil Industry;
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
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...