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Ironweed
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Seller
-
Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Viking Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth titled in silver gilt. First edition, first state with "perceivced" on page 205 line 22. Flat signed by Kennedy to the title page. Fine condition. The DJ in mylar has $14.95 price, apparently second state. The $14.95 is to top corner; bottom corner clipped; touch of pushing to spine ends else fine condition. Pulitzer price sticker to front panel. This book was sold in the UK and has a 10.95 GBP price sticker to flap near the bottom. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
The third novel in William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle series, Ironweed (1983) is set during the Great Depression. It follows Francis Phelan, a drifter from Albany, New York. After a devastating accident where he killed his child, he becomes a wandering alcoholic, but at the beginning of the novel has returned home. Detailing Francis’s life following his homecoming, Ironwood tells the tragic tale of a man haunted by his past. The striking novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted into a film in 1987.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24089
- Title
- Ironweed
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1983
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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