Go to the Widow-Maker
by Jones, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£36.58£25.61
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About This Item
Delacorte Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing stated on title page verso. 618 pages. Colophon. Shelf worn; dust jacket is not price clipped; tail end is torn with some surface paper loss. Now in clear removable cover. James Jones (1921 1977) was an American novelist known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. He won the 1952 National Book Award for his first published novel, From Here to Eternity. In this post-WWII novel, (the) "Now discharged, Jones protagonist is a renown playwright who deals with a relationship and, in Hemingway-esque fashion, becomes a skin diver in some sort of search for courage, or lack thereof." (public reader review); 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8941
- Title
- Go to the Widow-Maker
- Author
- Jones, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Fiction - WWII, Fiction - Adventure -, Fiction - American Authors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General; Antiquarian & Collectible Books;
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Jacket
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...