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A DIFFERENT DRUMMER [Signed]
by Kelley, William Melvin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 223 pages. Very Good, in a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket spine black and gold with black and beige titling, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Some rubbing and shelfwear, including tears to extremities, primarily the top and bottom edge of the front cover of dust jacket, small chip on tail of dust jacket spine, light foxing to interior of dust jacket. Light foxing to edges of text block and edges of boards, former owner's name on the front free end paper. Price uncut "$3.95". Signed by Kelley on the half-title page. First Edition, Second Printing, with no edition statement on the copyright page and gutter code 'D38'. Scarce in any format, especially scarce signed. Shelved in Case 2. William Melvin Kelley's debut novel won the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award and Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Kelley is credited with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print. [wikipedia]. 1354464. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1354464
- Title
- A DIFFERENT DRUMMER [Signed]
- Author
- Kelley, William Melvin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- African American Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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