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ALASKA
by Michener, James A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394551540
- ISBN 13
- 9780394551548
- Seller
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Delaware, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 1988. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0394551540 . 2.1 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 868 pages; Stated first edition. Pictorial gold cloth hard covers with bronze lettering on spine. Spine is straght, binding secure and tight. Pages are clean and bright. No ownership marks. Dust jacket with very light rubbing to top and bottom. .
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Reading Well Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5628
- Title
- ALASKA
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Stated 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394551540
- ISBN 13
- 9780394551548
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0394551540, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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