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Getting Up and Going Home
by Robert Anderson
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
£156.02£140.42
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. First Edition, and limited. As New; pristine. Never read nor handled, except to scan. Ribbon bookmark is, in fact, still in its original position. Large octavo, 257 pp. Franklin's lavish leather binding of Anderson's tale of upscale infidelity from ennui. See scans. Full rich russet leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, russet silk moire endpapers with matching page-marker ribbon. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. Immaculately preserved. With the author's "A Special Message to the members of The First Edition Society" (prefacing the novel) and the separate original eightfold, eight-page "Notes From the Editors" pamphlet which accompanied the book. Please review scans. L-franklin1
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005578
- Title
- Getting Up and Going Home
- Author
- Robert Anderson
- 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
- 1978
- Pages
- 257
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- fiction classic Classics, Literary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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