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SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED
by Oates, Joyce Carol
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- hardcover
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- First
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1978. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon and signed by the author. Octavo (24.5cm); beige and cream machine-embroidered cloth, with gilt-stamped leather title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and matching cloth slipcase; [6],7-115,[1]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket; slipcase shows light wear along upper and lower edge, and some minor toning and hand-soil to cloth; Near Fine. The smallest limitation for this title, a collection of six short stories, set between the urban and suburban mid-west and east coast. Provenance: From the collection of Earle and Larry Gray, proprietors of the Earle Gray Bookbinding Company.
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Details
- book dealer
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 5548
- Title
- SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sylvester & Orphanos
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1978
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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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- octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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