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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hardcover. Good. No DJ

No dust jacket. Cover has some wear, especially on the spine, which appears to have had some biopredation. No stickers/residue on the cover. There is an old sticker from a previous bookseller on the inside back cover. No writing or markings noted. Tanning/foxing are present, and are especially heavy on the inside covers. Pages are secure. Overall, a decent reading copy. Nonsmoking environment.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Hardcover. Good - Cash/Good. General surface and edge wear to the cover. The corners have been bumped. The boards are beginning to show in the corners. Previous owner's name inside. Pages show reader and age wear. There are several cracks in the spine throughout the book. Binding is still tight and pages are secure. General shelf and use wear to the dust jacket. The dust jacket is in a mylar cover that has a piece of the back missing. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 1936 original copyright date, this copy produced under wartime conditions so circa early 1940s. Dust jacket fairly clean with no cuts or tears, price on flap 149149. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Spine toned with modest loss at the corners and spine ends, boards slightly bowed and lightly soiled, endleaves tanned, sound and about very good.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936. 473 pp, top edge tinted, previous owner's details on front paste-down, end-papers foxed, lacks d/j spine, else very good copy in fair, illustrated d/j.

Ex-library book in fair condition. Book with usual card holder, stamps, stickers, markings and writing. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Pages deckled. Top stain of brick red on top outer edges. 1936. A15.

UsedGood. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing Pages are clean! The dust jacket has minor damage or small tear. The front text block edge is deckled Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Charles Scribners Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charles Scribner's Sons. 1942. This regular size/8vo HARDBACK has very light cornerwear and a small book-plate (with the previous owner's address) on the front paste-down endpaper, else NEAR FINE+; DJ has a few tears (no longer than 2 cm) along the edges, else VERY GOOD; clean, bright and tight with 473 pp.; white lettering on black spine. office sw. .

Very Good. Very Good PUblished by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1938 Shelf wear to edges and corners of cover and yellowing of pages, otherwise in great condition for its age Quality Books Because We Care - Shipped from Canada Usually ships within 1-2 business days If you buy this book from us, we will donate a book to a local school We donate 10,000+ books to local schools every year

New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1936. Second Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 473 pages; Description: 3 p. L. , 473 p. 21 cm. Subjects: Musical fiction.

William Heinemann Ltd. first edition, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 450pp, (VG) moderate tanning to pages throughout book with small owners name to fep with light fading and wear to covers

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons: First Edition (1936). With letter "A" and Scribner's emblem on the Copyright page. 473 pages. VeryGood Hardcover, no dj. No Wear. Signature inside front cover otherwise clean. Strong Tight binding and hinges. 8.25"x5.6"x1.6". be33266.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First editions. 5 vols. 8vo. Original cloth without dust jackets. Two titles with some minor rubbing, else Near Fine. First editions. 5 vols. 8vo. Marcia Davenport (1903-1996), daughter of soprano Alma Gluck (and the step-daughter of violinist Efrem Zimbalist) was raised in cosmopolitan circles and educated at Wellesley and in France. She was an early staff writer at the New Yorker, and in the Thirties was a music critic. At Scribner's her editor was Maxwell Perkins and her first book was a well-received biography of Mozart familiar to all lovers of Mozart. Her novel The Valley of Decision was a best-seller and was filmed. During World War II she worked for the Czechoslovak cause and from 1945 she divided her time between New York and Prague until the Communist coup d'etat in 1948 Marcia Davenport began to learn Czech during the war; her teacher was Otto Kraus, attached to the Czechoslovak consulate in New York (and later commercial attaché during the brief… Read More