Back of Town
by Wolff, Maritta
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1952. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket designed by George Salter, lightly toned and rubbed at the edges. Black buckram with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wolff's fourth novel, a love story that is "an excursion into the murky realm of intricate pressure and motivation that Dr. Kinsey so sublimely ignored in his highly oversimplified report.
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Details
- Seller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 6722
- Title
- Back of Town
- Author
- Wolff, Maritta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- 20th Century Fiction, Love, Romance
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...