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Passion Play
by Jerzy Kosinski
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312597835
- ISBN 13
- 9780312597832
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: St. Martins Press, New York, 1979. SIGNED & dated with drawing of a polo player. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. Signed and dated on the second free end-paper "All the best, Jerzy Kosinski, Dallas September 1979" and the author drew a sketch of a polo player. Book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock has previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down else clean with no writing or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($10.95) with light shelf wear and half inch and one inch closed tears near upper front corner. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Passion Play is the story of Fabian, Kosinski's most romantic and driven hero. A modern knight-errant, he roams America in his custom-built VanHome, his refuge, transport, and stable for his two horses. His livelihood is polo -- not the millionaire's team sport, but the life-threatening duel of clashing horsemen. The prize is more than money and honor; it is the awareness of having drawn upon every resource of body and mind, of man and horse in danger. Passion Play is a masterpiece of violence and seduction, love and loss, by one of the world's greatest writers.
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- Seller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2186
- Title
- Passion Play
- Author
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312597835
- ISBN 13
- 9780312597832
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- VG/VG
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
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