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THE CHERRY PIT
by Harington, Donald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good unclipped dj. Binding is slightly cocked and jacket has light wear with a few closed tears.
- Seller
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good unclipped dj. Binding is slightly cocked and jacket has light wear with a few closed tears.. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Author's first book. 8vo cloth. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.
Synopsis
A flamboyant, lascivious, comic novel about restoration and renewal, in which the protagonist returns to his hometown and encounters a life that is both instantly familiar and disturbingly strange. His journey back begins as a recovery mission, but then becomes a desperate search for, confrontation with, immersion in, and emergence from his lost past.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50288
- Title
- THE CHERRY PIT
- Author
- Harington, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good unclipped dj. Binding is slightly cocked and jacket has light wear with a few closed tears.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- fiction, mmb
Terms of Sale
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Please note that all items are offered subject to prior sale. All our books are FIRST EDITIONS and FIRST PRINTINGS unless noted otherwise. All dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. All books are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 10 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Derry, New Hampshire
About Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. Most of our holdings are modern and fairly contemporary, and feature both mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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