The Comedians
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670232084
- ISBN 13
- 9780670232086
- Seller
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New Yoirk: The Viking Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Originally copyrighted in 1965, this is a 1981 Viking Uniform Edition with blind-stamp BCE square on bottom rear board. Viking re-printed a series of Graham Greene novels in matching size and dust jacket; identified as the ""Uniform Edition."" This hard cover in fine condition with beige cloth boards and gold gilt spine lettering: clean & sharp; no writing or markings. Interior text block clean & tight with light mellow age toning to the papers. Small comfortable size at 4 3/4"" wide x 7 3/4"" tall. 320 numbered pages. Dust jacket very good with age toning to the white of the jacket. * From the jacket, ""Graham Greene has created a terrain of mounting suspense and subtle significance, and has fashioned a very important novel of our times.""
Synopsis
Graham Greene (1904-1991) was a prolific novelist, short story writer, travel writer and children's book writer. Many of his novels and short stories have been successfully adapted to the movie screen, including The Third Man (directed by Orson Welles), The End of The Affair , and The Quiet American
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Details
- Seller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- M000211
- Title
- The Comedians
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670232084
- ISBN 13
- 9780670232086
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New Yoirk
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Fiction, Haiti - Fiction, Graham Greene, Haiiti - Politics and Government - Fiction, Politics and Government
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...