The Viney Sketches: Monologues
by Goodman, Blanche
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Franklin, Ohio : Eldridge Entertainment House , 1918. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, no dj, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, fraying at the head and tail of the spine, former owner's name in pencil on the ffep, overall a clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. Decorative endpapers. 82 very clean unmarked and uncreased humorous and historical pages! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "'Dis heah presen' gingeration," said Viney as she sprinkled down the clothes preparatory to ironing and ket, 'lays too much sto' by books.' 'Folks says,' observed Uncle Peter, 'dat hit's books what mek de young people smahter'n de ol' uns nowadays.'......" ----- from Book-Raisin'. First Edition / First Printing. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037950
- Title
- The Viney Sketches: Monologues
- Author
- Goodman, Blanche
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Eldridge Entertainment House
- Place of Publication
- Franklin, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- FICTION MONOLOGUES SHORT STORIES SINGLE AUTHOR HUMOR HUMOROUS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
Conover Books
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Martinsville, Virginia
About Conover Books
We offer quality used books at great low prices! Our store is stocked with every genre old and new! Rare out-of-prints and many first editions! We are an internet and walk-in dealer.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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