Shane
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Early Printing. Publisher's Waxed Blue Boards with Stamped Brown Detailing. A Very Good or Better Book in a Fair Dust Jacket, Unclipped ($2.50). Book is moderately shelf worn and lightly sunned to extremities. Rubbing to corners, tail, and crown have caused some whitening. Boards have a few spots of trivial soiling. Text block is somewhat toned with minor soiling and foxing to top edge. Early but not First Printing of the First Edition as shown by lacking date on title page. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Harvey Kidder designed dust jacket presents better than fair, but evidence of moisture of the verso of jacket limits it accordingly. Significant rubbing has cause several chips and small losses to extremities. Jacket folds show wear. Spine panel is sunned. Hardcover. Small Octavo. [viii], 214pp. Very Good+ / Fair. Item #857
Price: $550.00