Wet Wash
by Upton, Harding
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Martinsville, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, pages are toning, overall a very crisp and clean first edition! Red cloth with black stamped lettering on the front board and spine.276 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "'Yes, but what's your father got to do about it?' Horace behind his glasses narrowed his eyes into slits of annoyance. 'He has everything to do with it,' Gladys reproved. 'I don't see what. I'm certainly not asking him to marry me.' 'No, but you've got to ask him to marry me,' Gladys insisted. 'Why? He hasn't anything to do with it.' 'He has everything to do with it,' Gladys objected. 'He's my father.'." ---- from Chapter 1 (Man Proposes).. First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Conover Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036961
- Title
- Wet Wash
- Author
- Upton, Harding
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- FICTION
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Conover Books
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Martinsville, Virginia
About Conover Books
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
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