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So the Wind Won't Blow it Away
by Brautigan, Richard
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
(New York, 1982): Delacorte Press/Syemour Lawrence. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 131pp. The last book published before Brautigan's death. The haunting tale of a young boy in a small town after WWII. A small group of people whose way of life was already doomed, even as they lived it The first television antenna on an American house was their tombstone. Bound in light pink paper covered boards lettered in silver, back in purple cloth, spine lettering silver. A very good copy with a bit of soiling to over front corner and along bottom edge of rear board., in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket with minor spot of rubbing to spine ends and corners.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021693
- Title
- So the Wind Won't Blow it Away
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/Syemour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- (New York, 1982)
- Keywords
- First Edition 1st Dust Jacket
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
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