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Outcroppings
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0879052627
- ISBN 13
- 9780879052621
- Seller
-
Brooksville, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Layton, Utah: Gibbs-Smith, 1988. First Edition, !st Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Till, Tom. Volume itself has blue cloth covers with sharp silver lettering on the spine and front cover. 130 pages, printed on high quality paper. Book is clean, fresh, tight and bright! In this work, the author's verbal images are brilliantly highlighted by photographs of the landscape about which he writes. What emerges here is a vision of the West: migration, settlement, and always the land itself. Number line in the work reads as follows: 90 89 88 5 4 3 2 1; above these numbers it states first edition. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. A quite nice copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully wrapped and packed in a box. A book of this quality should never be send to a buyer in any kind of padded or unpadded envelope or "bubble bag"!
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Lasseter, Jr.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0009169
- Title
- Outcroppings
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Illustrator
- Till, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, !st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0879052627
- ISBN 13
- 9780879052621
- Publisher
- Gibbs-Smith
- Place of Publication
- Layton, Utah
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Outcroppings. West-United States-description and Travel. West-United States-Historical Geography. Geology-West-United States.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Lasseter, Jr.
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Brooksville, Florida
About James Lasseter, Jr.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. 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...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
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