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Kenneth Roberts. The Lively Lady. Doubleday, Doran,, Garden City:, 1931.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with light green text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 inches with map end sheets with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed and lightly worn. In a very good+, price clipped second state dust jacket with a 1/4 inch chip from the lower edge of the spine area and with rubbing to the folds. Signed and inscribed by the author in pencil on the title page and dated at Kennebunk Beach in the year of publication. This copy is covered by the second state dust jacket which reads "A Chronicle of Arundel".just below the title on the front panel. Only 5,560 of the first printing were sold. A scarce title in this condition in a very collectible and very uncommon dust jacket.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. The Lively Lady. Doubleday, Doran,, Garden City:, 1931.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Very near fine in black cloth covered boards with light green text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches with map end sheets with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine lightly rubbed and the ghost of what may have been a book plate on the front paste down. In a very good+, unclipped first state dust jacket with rubbing to the fold to the front flap and several vary short closed tears around the edges of the panels. Signed and inscribed to A. P. Tedesco by the author on the title page. This copy is covered by the first state dust jacket which reads "A Chronicle of Certain Men of Arundel" while the second state dust jacket reads: "A Chronicle of Arundel". Only 5,560 of the first printing were sold. A scarce title in this condition in a very collectible and very uncommon dust jacket.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. The Lively Lady. Doubleday, Doran,, Garden City:, 1931.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in black cloth covered boards with light green text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2" by 5" with map end sheets with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine dimpled inward towards the text block; else fine. There is a prior owner's book plate on the verso of the title page which does not hide the "first edition" slug. In a very good+, unclipped first state dust jacket with light wear and several short closed tears to the ends of the spine area and to the upper edges of the panels. Signed by the author on a Kenneth Roberts book plate attached to the dedication page. This copy is covered by the first state dust jacket which reads "A Chronicle of Certain Men of Arundel" while the second state dust jacket reads: "A Chronicle of Arundel". Only 5,560 of the first printing were sold. A scarce title in this condition in a very collectible and very uncommon dust jacket.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. THE LIVELY LADY. Doubleday, Doran, 1931.
Price: US$754.82 + shipping
Description: THE LIVELY LADY, Doubleday Doran, 1931, first edition, lower front fore edge corner tip and upper rear fore edge corner tip gently bumped, else a fine copy in a vg N. C. Wyeth full color pictorial dust-wrapper with a bit of dust-soil. The authors second novel. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.