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Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
by Siebert,Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0609602373
- ISBN 13
- 9780609602379
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Very clean green paper-covered boards with beige spine, green metallic lettering on spine. Two small light bumps to board edges; remainder mark (small red dot) to top text block edge. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean and bright with clean endpapers - red dot on top text block page edges (remainder mark). 216 pages. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new removable mylar cover. Upon his return to Brooklyn, New York, the author reflects on the five months he has just spent at an old log cabin in the woods of Canada, and shares new conclusions about his city environs..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32588
- Title
- Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
- Author
- Siebert,Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0609602373
- ISBN 13
- 9780609602379
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY, URBAN PASTORAL, NEW YORK CITY, BROOKLYN, NATURE, CHARLES SIEBERT, FIRST EDITION, CANADA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Canada; New York City;
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- 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...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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