Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
by PEPPER, ART & LAURIE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Schrimer Books 1979. FIRST EDITION, super octavo turquoise cloth boards, yellow lettering to spine, xii+516pp., illus., VG (sl. cocked, light soiling and scuffing to boards; light tanning soiling and foxing within) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing and chipping with archival tape repairs to small lost segment base of spine, moderate soiling)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 274210
- Title
- Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
- Author
- PEPPER, ART & LAURIE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Schrimer Books 1979
- Keywords
- art pepper jazz biography american music alto saxophone saxophonist autobiography history
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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