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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Chabon, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679450041
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450047
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. SIGNED. 639pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 white cloth with matching paper over boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Front flyleaf tipped-in. The covers are just a little bit cocked. In a dust jacket with only trivial edge wear. Critically acclaimed work that was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Signed by Chabon on the title page.
Signed by Chabon on the title page.
Synopsis
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel follows the lives of the title characters, a Czech artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklyn-born writer named Sam Clay—both Jewish—before, during, and after World War II. Kavalier and Clay become major figures in the nascent comics industry during its "Golden Age.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63952
- Title
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Author
- Chabon, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679450041
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450047
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize; McSweeneys; award winning; wwii; world war ii; comic book; LA/SEATTLE2023
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
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