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The Promise
by Chaim Potok
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. SIGNED & DATED. Book Club Edition. VG/VG. Signed by Chaim Potok and dated 2-14-73 on the first free endpaper. Book has a mild lean but pages tightly bound. Good tips and clean boards. Textblock has bookplate from previous owner on front pastedown, else clean with no writing or markings and not ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket has some shelf wear to front panel and light chipping to spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart cover.
Synopsis
Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Potok’s first novel, The Chosen, published in 1967, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. He is author of eight novels, including In the Beginning and My Name is Asher Lev, and Wanderings , a history of the Jews. He died in 2002.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2379
- Title
- The Promise
- Author
- Chaim Potok
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Bookclub Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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