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Green cloth spine with green paper boards. Jacket has some wear on edges. a few areas of foxing on page edges. Corners a little worn. name/date written on pencil on title page.

Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover without DJ, spine faded.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925. Hardcover. Good +. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Green cloth spine with green paper boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners quite worn, covers toned at sides. Spine label chipped and quite toned. Binding tight and text clean, unmarked. Fiction. Stax.

Garden City 1925. Gosset 8vo/273pp B&W&C illus, illus eps VG/VG slight discoloring on front cover. .

Doubleday Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Half green cloth with paper label, pale green pictorial papercovered boards, bright yellow illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Spine and edges tanned, spine cocked a bit, corners worn and bumped, a very good copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition copy, in what appears to be a bespoke binding of quarter dark brown calf over burlap, with very neatly done paper labels in tan paper printed in dark brown. There is some light and scattered foxing.~~This copy is signed on the half-title page with a personal inscription by David Grayson: "To | Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H. Parker | with the regard of | David Grayson | 1925". ~~There are two letters laid in as well. One, a TLS to "friend Parker" thanking him for a recent letter and expressing satisfaction "to have one who knows me as well as you do like what I write so well". It is signed Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson was Mr. Baker's pen-name]. The second letter is a 3 1/2 page ALS to Mrs, Parker from Jessie G. Baker, Ray Baker's wife. In it she writes primarily about her garden in Florida, mentioning that Mr. Baker "has gained right along, but is not quite up to normal strength".… Read More