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If You Would Be Happy
by Stout, Ruth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with a small spot of sticker lift in upper corner and some light chipping at bottom edge. Very 60s jacket design by Ellen Raskin. The author is the sister of mystery writer Rex Stout. 8vo. 190 pp. In protective Mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95318
- Title
- If You Would Be Happy
- Author
- Stout, Ruth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back
Terms of Sale
Warwick Books
Returnable if not as described, with prior notice, within 30 days. We take care packaging the books you order and will gift wrap on request.
About the Seller
Warwick Books
Biblio member since 2004
South Pasadena, California
About Warwick Books
We are an Internet-only book business. We carry hard-to-find books in many categories including art, photography, military history, cookbooks, children's books, fiction, needlework, Americana, popular culture, and signed first editions. Warwick Books is a member of IOBA, the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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