The Painted Bird
by Kosinski, Jerzy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0394600150
- ISBN 13
- 9780394600154
- Seller
-
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. ML 15.4. Stated "First Modern Library Edition September 1970". Apparently the first came in different binding formats: This has blue tweed boards, plain endpapers, and fading yellowed pages. The number 15 is still on the jacket spine but also includes the ISBN number on the back panel. A red store remainder mark on bottom edges. Brown & tan dust jacket is price clipped. Very light edgewear on jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Algonquin Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17296
- Title
- The Painted Bird
- Author
- Kosinski, Jerzy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- ISBN 10
- 0394600150
- ISBN 13
- 9780394600154
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
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About the Seller
Old Algonquin Books
Biblio member since 2006
Arvada, Colorado
About Old Algonquin Books
Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
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