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Insomnia or The Devil at Large
by Miller, Henry
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- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. First edition thus. 4to, unpaginated. Photographs, illustrations throughout. Handwritten text in facsimile. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Miller to his friend, Dr. Robert Macy and dated in 1976 on the half title. Black cloth lettered in gilt in jacket. A nearly fine copy with some toning to endpapers in very good jacket with a few edge tears and light chipping.
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- Seller
- Peruse the Stacks
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5774
- Title
- Insomnia or The Devil at Large
- Author
- Miller, Henry
- Format/Binding
- 4to, unpaginated. Photographs, illustrations throughout. Handwritten text in facsimile. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1974
Terms of Sale
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GIG HARBOR, Washington
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Independent bookseller out of Gig Harbor, WA offering all manner of signed, first edition, and collectible books.
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- Fine
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- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- First Edition
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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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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