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Foreign Affairs
by Alison Lurie
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition, limited, and signed by author Alison Lurie on the flyleaf. As New; pristine. Never read nor handled, except to scan. Ribbon bookmark is, in fact, still in its original position. Octavo, 291 pp. Franklin's lavish leather binding of Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and the true first edition of it. See scans. Full rich red leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, marbled endpapers with red satin page-marker ribbon. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. Immaculately preserved. With the author's "A Special Message For the First Edition" (prefacing the novel). Please review scans. L-franklin1
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005579
- Title
- Foreign Affairs
- Author
- Alison Lurie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 291
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- fiction classic Classics, Literary, Contemporary, General, Autographs
Terms of Sale
Singularity Rare & Fine
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
About Singularity Rare & Fine
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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