Silas Timberman
by Fast, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. First English Edition. Hardcover. "Until October of 1950, Silas Timberman was a professor of American literature at a large middle-western university, a mild, happily married man, the father of three children, whose life was neither eventful nor very unusual. Then a set of circumstances sought him out [...] and he was faced with that enormous and frightening question of conscience..." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Spine is slightly loose, boards are lightly curved, foxing on edges, small bumps on spine ends, pages are lightly tanned. Small age spots on front endpaper to page 9 and back endpaper. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has 1/2-inch tear on spine head, 1/4-inch tear on tail edge of front cover, small chips on top corners, age spotting on inside of covers, tanned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52476
- Title
- Silas Timberman
- Author
- Fast, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
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- Jacket
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- Tail
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- Spine
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- Bumps
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- Paste-down
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
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