The America of George Ade: Fables Short Stories, Essays
Published by G.P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1960
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library
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Association member: MABA
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 46.38
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First printing. No additional dates. Te book is bound in black linen with title and editor in gilt on the spine. The corners are sharp and the binding square and tight. Fore-edges are rough-cut. There is a tiny ding on the top edge of the front cover. name of previous owner on the first free end paper. Otherwise, pages are lightly age-toned, clean, smooth and unmarked.The price-clipped dust jacket is in very good condition with darkening of the spine, and light chipping wear on the top edges of front and spine panels and the corners. The author was an American humorist dubbed the Aesop of Indiana. The editor was one of the 20th century's greatest humorists and the writer and narrator of the semi-autobiographical movie " A Christmas Story". 283 pages.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1710777919314
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The America of George Ade: Fables Short Stories, Essays
- Author
- George Ade/ Jean Sheperd, Editor
- Publisher
- G.P Putnam's Sons, New York
- Publication year
- 1960
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library
Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
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Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, based in Brunswick, Maine is a non-profit corporation that exists solely to assist the Curtis Memorial Library in its many activities, principally through fundraising by the sale of used books. Operating through a retail outlet located at 200 Maine St. in Brunswick and through its on-line sales activities, Curtis Friends operates only with volunteers from the local community and sells only those books donated by its constituents. Curtis Friends has been in existence for several decades.…
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