We Are the Living: Brief Stories (signed by Erskine Caldwell)
by CALDWELL, ERSKINE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in original light orange cloth, blocked in brown and green, top edge gilt, and near fine original numbered slipcase. A very/No Jacket
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition, number 137 of only 250 copies. Signed by Erskine Caldwell. Caldwell's second volume of short fiction, collecting twenty stories ranging in setting from North to South, Near fine in publisher's original light orange cloth, blocked in brown and green, top edge gilt, and near fine original numbered slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. viii, 264 pp. A very nice copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6288
- Title
- We Are the Living: Brief Stories (signed by Erskine Caldwell)
- Author
- CALDWELL, ERSKINE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in original light orange cloth, blocked in brown and green, top edge gilt, and near fine original numbered slipcase. A very
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...