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The Weary Blues (Third Printing)
by Hughes, Langston
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Miguel Covarrubias. Third printing, October 1926, same year as first edition. Blue cloth spine over printed paper-covered boards under the famous DJ illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Light wear to spine ends; DJ has shallow chipping at head & tail of spine, toning, small chips to edges of jacket, including one which removes much of the "P" of "Printing." A good copy of this jacket which is difficult to find in old editions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002583
- Title
- The Weary Blues (Third Printing)
- Author
- Hughes, Langston
- Illustrator
- Miguel Covarrubias
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- poetry poems black african american
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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