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The Wave: A Novel
by Hyde, Christopher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Disaster looms when a 620 foot high wall of water storms down the Columbia River at 96 miles per hour--heading down river towards the Richland Nuclear Reservation, a vast center of nuclear waste, and to the Pacific Ocean. Jonathan Kane, the regional director of the Office of environmental Safety and Inspection fights time to prevent a radioactive tidal wave from contaminating the City of Portland, the West Coast, and even the Pacific Ocean. Book is bound in green half-cloth with bold and bright gilt titles, black boards, quite clean and unmarked with spine heel rear edge scuffed, spine head rubbed; tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Former owner bookplate on paste-down. Upper right corner of free endpaper clipped. Rough cut. Internals very clean and completely unmarked. 226 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, USA
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- Seller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 024072
- Title
- The Wave: A Novel
- Author
- Hyde, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ECOLOGICAL DISASTER ADVENTURE COLUMBIA RIVER NUCLEAR PLANTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Adventure;
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About the Seller
The Parnassus BookShop
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Glossary
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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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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"...
- 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...
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