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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (Modern Library)
by Kempton, Murray
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679603107
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603108
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Modern Library, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Limited light shelf wear & aging to covers. Binding is firm. Small area of light spotty soiling at top of fore edge of text block. Jacket is not price clipped, shows light shelf wear, mild vertical crease at center of spine. Now in clear archival sleeve. Interior is evenly toned, free of markings..
Synopsis
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday , as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books . His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch , as well as Part of Our Time . He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Tomb , The Devil Problem and Other True Stories , and Resurrection . He is the editor of The New Yorker .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 085754
- Title
- Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (Modern Library)
- Author
- Kempton, Murray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679603107
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603108
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Small World Books, LLC
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Rochester, New York
About Small World Books, LLC
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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