Description
Up For Sale Today is
My Own Four Walls
by
Don Rose
Illustrated by Leon Rose
Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York. 1941. 277 pgs. Signed by Don Rose on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing.
DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (rear board discolored and lightly soiled). Heavy offsetting present to the rear pastedown. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
Don Rose came to the U.S. from England in 1908, when he was 18, entering through Ellis Island. By 1941 he was one of Philadelphia's best-known newspaper columnists. That year he published his gentle, funny memoir My Own Four Walls, the story of the ramshackle farmhouse he and Marjorie, his wife, bought in 1918 for themselves and their 12 children.
Part diary, part DIY manual, Rose's unsung classic is a tale of smoky fireplaces, leaky ceilings and unruly gardens, at a time when refrigerators were newfangled and suburban homes were furnished at country auctions. Most of all it is a story of how one man, with persistence, slowly put down roots in his adopted country.
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folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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