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Obituaries
by Saroyan, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0916870170
- ISBN 13
- 9780916870171
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good +. 354pp. 8to. Orange cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and front panel. Photodecorated end papers. Book Condition: About Fine. Binding tight and square, gilt sparkly, tips sharp and edges clean and white. Faintest bit of foxing to top edge. Either unread or read once very carefully. Dust Jacket Condition: A nic to the edge and a bit of finger soiling else fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DuBois Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001261
- Title
- Obituaries
- Author
- Saroyan, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - About Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0916870170
- ISBN 13
- 9780916870171
- Publisher
- Creative Arts Book Company
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1979
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
DuBois Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
New York, New York
About DuBois Rare Books
Dealing in fine, rare and odd books since 2009; collecting since forever.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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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