Quo Vadimus? or, the Case for the Bicycle
by White, E. B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. viii + 219 pp, I. Parables and Prophecies; II. Easy Essays on Hard Subjects; III. Medicine and Other Occult Sicences; IV.Trials of Man, Who Inherited the Earth. 37 essays. No index. No illustrations. Binding tight and square, pages unmarked, clean, with slight age-toned textblock. 5.9" x 8.3" orange cloth boards, in unclipped, illustrated DJ. DJ with 1" x 1.5" chip on top back hinge & edge, with lesser wear to bottom spine edge and forecorners. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008099
- Title
- Quo Vadimus? or, the Case for the Bicycle
- Author
- White, E. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- essays - humor - New Yorker humorist - Elwyn Brooks White b. 1899- d. 1985
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Hinge
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- Octavo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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