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Duluth
by Vidal, Gore
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
William Heinemann, London, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. VI, 210 pages, last five pages blank, intentionally. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and corners and rubbing to the book edges. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and age toning of the internal text. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black background with white and multicoloured titles to the front panel and white and blue titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and edges. In this book the author ".. has ravished every soap-opera cliche, scourged every stereotype of best-selling pulp in a savage, brilliant, wildly comic burlesque of modern-day America -- its cruelty, it's madness and its dreams." -- from the front fold over panel blurb This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; America; Inventory No: 0110239. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0110239
- Title
- Duluth
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Literature -- American Literature & Literary; America; Unbranded Vidal, Gore Duluth
- Bookseller catalogs
- America;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- 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.
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