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Williwaw
by GORE VIDAL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Hardcover. First edition: First printing of the author's first book. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front boa/Very Good
- Seller
-
Potomac, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Vidal's first book. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in blue, richly colored. Content internally fine. First state dust jacket is bright and in very good condition for age, only lightly rubbed at extremities with wrinkles and minor chips and top and tail of spine; endpapers unevenly tanned. An excellent copy of this amazing author's first book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31506
- Title
- Williwaw
- Author
- GORE VIDAL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover. First edition: First printing of the author's first book. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front boa
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Grinning Cat Books
Fourteen (14) day return guarantee, for any reason, and we pay return shipping costs if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Grinning Cat Books
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Potomac, Maryland
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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