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No Life for a Lady
by Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 356pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Bound in gray cloth, with title stamped in brown ink on spine and front board. Cartographic endpapers and red topstain. Rubbing to extremities. No cracks in the textblock, but binding is a little shaky. (Charming) contemporary gift inscription on the half-title; prior owner's signature on title page. In a dust jacket with scattered losses on edges and at creases. Rear panel is detached, and split has been amateurly repaired with tape. Memoir of a girlhood spent on a New Mexico ranch in the late 19th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66304
- Title
- No Life for a Lady
- Author
- Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1941
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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