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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close [Signed]
by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618329706
- ISBN 13
- 9780618329700
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. First Edition. Signed by Safran Foer on title page with inscription, "For Jeanine Thanks Jonathan Safran Foer." Octavo. 326 pages. Black and white photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver.
Light edgewear to dust jacket and creasing to verso of flaps. Light edgwear to boards and spine ends are nudged. Some cosmetic cracking at hinges, but binding is otherwise sound. Some light staining to edges of text block and a few pages dog-eared, but otherwise interior clean and unmarked.
Light edgewear to dust jacket and creasing to verso of flaps. Light edgwear to boards and spine ends are nudged. Some cosmetic cracking at hinges, but binding is otherwise sound. Some light staining to edges of text block and a few pages dog-eared, but otherwise interior clean and unmarked.
Synopsis
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he disovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6695
- Title
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close [Signed]
- Author
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0618329706
- ISBN 13
- 9780618329700
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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