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Tobacco Road
by Caldwell, Erskine
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Signed first edition of Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell in publisher's dust jacket.. Octavo, 241pp. Burnt orange cloth, title over gilt on spine and front cover. Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, mylar dust jacket remnant along bottom edge of covers, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price to front flap, tape repairs to verso to reinforce folds. Light wear to corners. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. (Bruccoli & Clark II: 87) Signed on the half-title "To Ralph D. Hartman / with all the / good wishes of / Erskine Caldwell." Hartman's bookplate affixed to front pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13253
- Title
- Tobacco Road
- Author
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell in publisher's dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- erskine caldwell, caldwell first edition, caldwell southways, caldwell god's little acre, caldwell tobacco road, caldwell you have seen their faces, georgia boy
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
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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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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