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Stated First Edition. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers.n, SIGNED by author and illustrator. 467 pgs. Illustrated with drawings. no writing no tearing. inscribed to Mrs Edw T. Longstreth see pictures
Presumed first edition. 467pp, index. Blue cloth, gold lettering-very slightly dulled, map on end papers "showing routes taken by the author and illustrator of this book." Pages are very slightly toned, and slight edgewear to cover. Many wonderful pen-and-ink drawings.
Royal blue cloth, gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed corners and extremities, very nearly as issued. Signed, limited first edition, signed by both author and illustrator. Dust jacket shows paper loss to approx. 1/3 of spine panel, with chipped top extremity, top rear edge (minor loss) and corners (tape repairs), clipped front flap, now in Brodart sleeve. Scarce in jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Signed by both author and illustrator on dedication page: "To Frances Chase Whitman with happy memories Amy Oakley Thornton Oakley" with black pens. A sightseeing motor tour of the state. Illustrations by Thornton Oakley. Over one hundred pen drawings. 8vo. 467 pages. 20 chapters. Bright blue cloth stamped in gilt. Map endpages. Page foredges uncut. Very clean. Tight. Nice dust Jacket. A very nice copy. Fine or better/ Very good.
467 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled, decorative map eps, frontis; ffep scuffed, v lt offsetting eps-feps. Cover: blue, gilt artwork/titles front/spine; v lt shelfwear, sm dk stain spine. DJ: clipped in Brodart, blue, red/yellow artwork front, yellow titles front/spine, black text back; several closed tears, 2 med triangular chips back, red mark back, v lt soil.
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis
Date published: 1950
Format: Hardcover
Later printing. Illustrated from more than 100 drawings by Thornton Oakley. 467pp. Gift inscription, text block edges, board and spine with faint tidelines (text is clean), spine tanned, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. A combined pictorial and literary interpretation of the state, from two Pennsylvania natives.
Publisher: Stated first edition, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis, 1950.
Date published: 1950
Format: Hardcover
Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Endpapers are lightly browned. Dust jacket is lightly worn at spine tips, corners and some edges with a small chip at bottom back edge. 467 pages with index and 113 illustrations.
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1950. Stated First Edition, Limited Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. Limited Edition, SIGNED by author and illustrator. 467 pgs. Illustrated with drawings. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has closed tear on back panel (taped), very light edgewear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis
Date published: 1950
Format: Hardcover
First edition. Illustrated from more than 100 drawings by Thornton Oakley. 467pp. Small owner name, binding slightly loose, boards with modest edgewear, spine tanned, about very good. Limited edition Signed by author and illustrator. A combined pictorial and literary interpretation of the state, from two Pennsylvania natives.
Signed Limited First Edition by author & illustrator; shows previous owner's signed bookplate ffep (inner side) & previous owner's name and address to title page; with scant scuffing to corners & spine ends. D.W. shows chipping to extremes & front flap fold; with darkening to rear panel & rear flap fold.
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