HIS HUMAN MAJESTY
by BOYLE, Kay
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good./Good.
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, 1949. First edition. Very good./Good.. Gilt green cloth. Pale stain at fore-edge, edges lightly rubbed, else very good, in a full-color pictorial dust jacket by Adolf Dehn, with a tanned spine and a few nicks.
First edition. Men training in the mountains of Colorado as members of the US Army ski troops during WWII without the benefit of the company of women, a subject that seems to irritate them inordinately.
First edition. Men training in the mountains of Colorado as members of the US Army ski troops during WWII without the benefit of the company of women, a subject that seems to irritate them inordinately.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 311
- Title
- HIS HUMAN MAJESTY
- Author
- BOYLE, Kay
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Jacket Condition
- Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
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Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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