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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers. An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj. 12mo. Mason #310: 1st American edition, later impression(?) with top edges gilt instead of yellow and decorated endpapers. Binding decoration is sunflowers printed in black rather than cherub imbibing seen on some copies. Mason does not establish priority.
Word And The Void by Terry Brooks - 1997
by Terry Brooks
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Word And The Void
by Terry Brooks
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USA: Ballantine Books, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall. David Stevenson. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Printing 3 Copyright dates, September 1997, August 1998, October 1999. All three volumes are SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The third volume is a presentation copy. Volume 2 has a dent bottom edge back. Book 1-Running with the Demon, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, first edition, first printing, black cover over boards with gold lettering and design on the spine. No tears, bent pages, a note written on the inside fly leaf. Dust jacket, no tears bent flaps nor is it price clipped. Shelfware to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine are minor. Book 2-A Night of the Word, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, first edition, second printing. Black cover over boards with gold lettering and design on the spine. No tears, bent pages, nor any writing. Dust Jacket, no tears bent flaps nor is it price clipped. Shelfware to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine are minor. Book 3-Angel Fire East, SIGNED, first edition, first printing, blue and purple cover over boards with silver lettering and design on the spine. There are no tears, bent pages, nor any writing. Dust Jacket, no tears bent flaps nor is it price clipped. Shelfware to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine are minor. All three volumes have bright clean text, bindings are tight, a solid set of books. Pay-pal or credit card.
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- Date Published 1997
- Pages 1065
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Bookplate of Lord Stanley of Alderley. John Thomas Stanley (1766-1850), 7th Baronet and First Baron Stanley of Alderley of Alderley Park, Cheshire. He undertook learned expeditions to the cultural centres of Europe, becoming one of the first explorers of Iceland.
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First UK edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1868. Small octavo. xii, 403pp. Half title, Frontispiece portrait. Title. Later full blue calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt rules and lettering. Lightly toned. Spine slightly darkened. Signature of Raisley Moorsom in pencil to ffep.The first edition of Whitman published in the UK, the only time Whitman (reluctantly) allowed his writings and his portrait photograph to be censored.
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New York: Pantheon, (1962). First U.S. edition / First printing. Red cloth. Fine in price-clipped jacket about fine. The author's first novel, and most famous work. This is a bright sparkling copy. The jacket is on a heavy stock with a thick varnish. Though price clipped, it is not to be confused with the lighter uncoated book club issue. Gunter Grass was the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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THE WORD AND THE VOID - THE COMPLETE STORY IN ONE VOLUME
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The Word and the Void
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