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THE ORCHID
by Nathan, Robert
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. First edition (stated). Very good plus in very good jacket.. First edition of this amusing snapshot of the tangled lives of entertainers in their twilight years, a satire with heart. "Nathan smiles at the comedy and breaks your heart with it," observes Michael March in THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN (5). Appropriately, a species of orchid was named after Robert Nathan in 2004 (Paphiopedilum Robert Nathan Boersma). 7.5'' x 5''. Original purple cloth lettered in gilt. In original unclipped ($2.00) blue and pink pictorial dust jacket with art by L. Trevisan. 199, [1] pages. Gilt lettering somewhat tarnished. Jacket with fading to spine, shallow chipping at spine edges, a bit of light soiling and edgewear.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44776
- Title
- THE ORCHID
- Author
- Nathan, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition (stated)
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- 20th century,US American
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
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