Words at Play
Language: English
Published by Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1939
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, Burlingame, CA, U.S.A.B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB
AbeBooks seller since June 18, 2014
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 77.76
Quantity: 1 available
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Illustrated punning verse from Alfred Sutro (under the pen name Adam Smart), lawyer, book collector, and long-time president of the Book Club of California. One of five hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The book is dedicated "To his own and all other grandchildren". This copy is inscribed "To Caroline with lover from her affectionate grandfather, Alfred Sutro (Adam Smart)". Caroline later added her own bookplate. Grabhorn 308. Pink cloth backstrip slightly faded, pink pattered boards slightly worn at corners. Pages printed in black and pink. A charming work with truly terrible puns. 12.25 x 9".
Seller Inventory # 2024-Q77
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Words at Play
- Author
- Smart, Adam [Sutro, Alfred]
- Publisher
- Grabhorn Press, San Francisco
- Publication year
- 1939
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Davenport, W.R.
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- California Private Presses, Children and Young Adult, Grabhorn Press
B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB
Burlingame, CA, U.S.A.
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