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Cruel Shoes
by Martin, Steve
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399123040
- ISBN 13
- 9780399123047
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine ; Very Good Jacket. 1979 G. P. Putnam's Sons. Sixth printing. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue paper-covered boards with beige cloth-covered spine and black spine lettering. Black and white photographs. High-quality glossy paper. 128 pages. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. Covers very slightly faded near the top and bottom edges; front cover has a tiny imperfection in the paper surface. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has light edge and surface wear and some light tanning on the top and bottom edges of the flaps. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Cruel Shoes is a collection of offbeat, mostly humorous essays and short stories by Steve Martin, and his first published book, and is also the title of one of the pieces therein, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store. Cruel Shoes was originally released in 1977 as a handmade limited edition of 750 signed and numbered books published by Press of the Pegacycle Lady (Victoria Dailey). The cover is just pale paper over pressboard.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14550
- Title
- Cruel Shoes
- Author
- Martin, Steve
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399123040
- ISBN 13
- 9780399123047
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Flap(s)
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- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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