Companionable Books
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dj
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1922, 1922. Hardcover. Fair/No Dj. 12 mo., hardcover, ornate blue pictorial, embossed boards. Broken hinges, crayon scribbling on back inside cover, else a good reading copy. 391 deckled pages. Eight portrait plates are in wonderful, framable, condition. Essays about books "that are worth taking with you on a journey, where the weight of luggage counts, or keeping beside your bed, near the night-lamp; books that will bear reading often, and the more slowly you read them the better you enjoy them..." Included are The Book of Psalms, and references to works of Samuel Johnson. Wordsworth, Izaak Walton, Emerson and more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26522
- Title
- Companionable Books
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1922
- Date Published
- 1922
Terms of Sale
bookwitch
All books guaranteed for 30 days. Full refund if not entirely happy with product. There may be $5 re-stocking fee to be determined by me.
About the Seller
bookwitch
Biblio member since 2006
Concord, California
About bookwitch
Many rare and out of print books. Specialties cookbooks, childrens books, trading, textbooks, art, car repair, religion, signed books; over 30,000 books.
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