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A Beggar In Jerusalem
by Elie Wiesel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Random House, 1970 First edition. Fourth printing. Unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 price intact. Gift inscription in pencil on fly leaf. Hebrew / English book plate on FFEP. Otherwise clean text and interior. Deckled fore edge. Publisher's top stain to top edge of text block. Black boards with blue cloth spine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+.
Synopsis
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than fifty books, both fiction and nonfiction. He is a recipient of the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor’s Grand-Croix, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Genesee Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101251
- Title
- A Beggar In Jerusalem
- Author
- Elie Wiesel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Genesee Books
Biblio member since 2016
Rochester, New York
About Genesee Books
Online book seller out of Rochester NY. My tastes are libertine and quirky and the selection of books tends to reflect those preferences.
Glossary
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
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