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RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS and SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION
by Salinger, J.D
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- hardcover
- First
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Stephenson, Virginia
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1959. First Edition. Third Issue (per Ahearn), with dedication page bound in after the title page. Octavo; blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 248pp. Tasteful, decorative bookplate, place and date (in ink), and faint sticker residue to front pastedown; upper board edges gently sunned, with text clean throughout; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edgeworn, with a few short tears, attendant creases, and fading to spine; Very Good+. Two long pieces by Salinger, which originally appeared in the pages of The New Yorker.
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Details
- book dealer
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 1423
- Title
- RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS and SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION
- Author
- Salinger, J.D
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- NOAMZ
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched... [more]
- 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... [more]
- 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"... [more]
- sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight... [more]
- gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in... [more]
- good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- title page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the... [more]
- bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former... [more]
- edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a... [more]
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