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Naming the Spirits
by Thornton, Lawrence (1937- )
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385475527
- ISBN 13
- 9780385475525
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
257 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Lawrence Thornton is an American novelist and critic living in Claremont, California. His most well known novel, Imagining Argentina, employs the methods of magic realism to tell a story of the Dirty War. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000999
- Title
- Naming the Spirits
- Author
- Thornton, Lawrence (1937- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385475527
- ISBN 13
- 9780385475525
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co 1995 New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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Glossary
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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