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Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1
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Good plus, light general wear, edges & spine ends lightly chewed First Edition Cloth Light overall soiling, corners bumped; o/w tight reading copy
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Hard Cover - VG - No dust jacket if issued - Book is clean and tight with light wear - 302 pages.
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Owner's flamboyant ink signature on front free end paper; Aged textblock overall clean and tight; Binding lightly edge and corner worn and scuffed; Spine titling faded; Lacks dust jacket; 302p. Size: 12mo - over 6 " 7 " Tall
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Spine a bit canted and bumped, pages; 8vo; 302 pages
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Stated "Third Edition" in brown cloth with spine and cover gilt stamped. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company (1924). 302 pps. A VG or better copy with soft spine ends. No jacket.
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General wear and rubbed cover. Bookplate on front free endpage. Tight binding. Gold gilt on spine. Faded gold symbol on cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1924 EDITION: FIRST ED 302
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First English Edition. foxing to pages. Good to Very Good condition.
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Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924; stated Second Edition, no additional printings indicated; 302pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of brown cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout. Missing the scarce jacket. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Book is like new in brown boards with bright gilt lettering. An excellent vintage copy.
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Very light soiling. Lightly bumped corners. Light edgewear.
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Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine is faded wear at edges and spine
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First Edition, stated, 302 pp., brown cloth, gilt letters, small bookseller's tag on inside back cover. Some discoloration along the bottom edge of the front cover, not affecting the book.
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very good hardcover, there's a nasty tear to the head of the spine 2nd edition. Straws and Prayer-Books, one of the least well known entries in the Poictesme series, consists of collected shorter works.
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B20 of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. A collection of eight essays and two stories. Maroon cloth. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
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First edition. Octavo. 302pp. Owner stamp on front pastedown, a very good copy.
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Hardcover published by John Lane The Bodley Head : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition.1926 VG
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Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.
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Dizain de Diversions. 2nd printing. NY (McBride) 1924. A fine copy in slightly soiled and torn dust wrapper.
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CABELL, James Branch. Straws and Prayer-Books. Dizain des Diversions. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924. First edition. Bruccoli and Clark II, p. 70. A fine copy.
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Gift inscription on front free end paper; front free end paper browned; binding tight; spine a little bumped at head & foot. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket)
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1st edition. 8vo. Prelims. + 302pp. + adverts. Pages lightly browned, purple cloth, boards faintly speckled by damp. US$14
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(1926). (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 302pp. (Fiction)
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Reprint 1926, good tight copy, some age discolouration, fading to spine, minor marks etc.
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PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK.
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Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01
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Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 320 Language: English Pages: 320
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