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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Autumn Dreams | Eppie Bowdre Castlen | Taschenbuch | 112 S. | Englisch | 2018 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337511135 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Owner bookplate on front pastedown, lightly toned spine, near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Uncommon southern novel written in dialect about a young girl taken from her African parents and sent to America on a slave ship, her role as "Mammy" in a white family, marriage, and old age.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Smith, Hal (cover); Watson, Emmett; Holmgren, John; Clymer, John; Burke, May C.; Smith, Ralph C.; Diamond, Samuel; Phillips, John (illustrator). First Edition. 60 pages. Features: Nice colver illustration of Bride on green background; Charming colour-photo ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes inside front cover shows two well-dressed ladies walking dog; Brief news article on Russia refers to "the wholesale butchering of men who were Stalin's chief associates for years but came to be regarded as him as rivalsor as obstacles to his being a more autocratic ruler than any Czar ever was."; Nice one-page Maxwell House coffee illustrated ad; The Call to National Defence; Testing Canadian Democracy; The Peril of Czechoslovakia; Economic Demobilization; Salvage (part I of short story); Payoff (short story); The Autobiography of Sir Herbert Barker - part I on the manipulative surgeon who was for 20 years sneered at as "Barker the Bone Setter"; The Bogus Artist (short story); Desert Promise (short story); In Beautiful Bohemia - photo-illustrated article on Czechoslovakia written shortly before Germany's recent annexation of Austria;; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (short story); Royal and Ancient Gossip - Golf article with photos of C. Ross Somerville, Heather Leslie and Harry Cooper, plus marvelous colour photo of Mrs. John A. Rogers of Winnipeg and Mrs. Eric Phillips of Oshawa at the Niakwa Club; Palmolive soap article includes illustration of the Dionne Quints; Movies news and photos of Shirley Temple, Maxine Jennings, Rochelle Hudson, Dorothy Moore, Hugh Herbert and Bob Burns; Your Leading Man - book about marriage/relationships; Nice illustrated ad for Sisman's Scampers (shoes) inside back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue.

First Edition. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 107; engraved frontis portrait; wood-engraved initials and decorations throughout; front cover a little spotted, else a very good copy in original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.