Skippy Bedelle: His Sentimental Progress from the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
by Johnson, Owen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, light soiling and faint foxing to top of text block, white spine lettering nearly all rubbed away (although the white & black front cover illustration is virtually unblemished), vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Lute Hutton, San Diego, California); jacket is chipped at top of spine (extending just a bit into both the front and rear panels), spine age-toned and lightly spotted, small chips at upper corners, one tiny chip at top of rear panel]. (B&W frontispiece + 5 B&W illustrated plates) The final entry in the author's famed "Lawrenceville Stories," this one presenting "the joyous story of a sixteen-year-old Lawrenceville schoolboy, his first contacts with the baffling fair sex, his attainment of wisdom through the comic-tragedies of adolescence, his sentimental progress" etc. (ref. the book's subtitle). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26386
- Title
- Skippy Bedelle: His Sentimental Progress from the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
- Author
- Johnson, Owen
- Illustrator
- Ernest Fuhr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- School Life, Fiction: Vintage, Adolescence, Boys Fiction
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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