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Helen Keller; Sketch for a Portrait
by Van Wyck Brooks
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1956 E.P. Dutton, New York. 1956. Hardcover. Stated First Edition but has BOMC indentation on rear thus is a BOMC. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; wear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; small closed tears. Blue boards with white lettering on the spine and Dutton emblem on front in white. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 166 pp 12mo. The is the story of the blind, deaf, and semi-mute Helen Keller shown in a very personal light as seen through the eyes of her neighbor. It is an illuminating portrait of a woman and her triumph over her disabilities. This book focuses on her mind and spirit. Laid-in is a copy of the BOMC News reporting about this book. A clean very presentable copy in Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015260
- Title
- Helen Keller; Sketch for a Portrait
- Author
- Van Wyck Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HELEN KELLER, BLINDNESS, OPTOMETRY, OPHTHALMOLOGY, GLAUCOMA, DEAFNESS, BLIND-DEAF, MUTE, VISUAL DISABILITIES, BRAILLE, visually impaired, blind training, sign language, Alexander Bell, visually handicapped, deaf-blind, handicapped,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Optometry/Ophthalmology;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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