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Americana
by DeLillo, Don
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971-01-01. First Edition. Hardbound. Very Good/Acceptable. Signed by Author. First printing stated, with 1971 on the title page. Flatsigned by DeLillo on title page in black ink. Hardbound book in very good condition especially considering age of item. Red boards quarterbound in blue cloth have blue gilt titling on front, red gilt titling on spine, and a trace of sunning at the very edges. Teal endpapers, with former owner's name written on FFEP. Gray tinting to top edge of text block has slight faded, and leading and lower edges of text block show the beginnings of age toning. Dust jacket in mylar shows some overall agetoning and wear with two small closed tears next to top of spine and a closed tear across top of spine. Please see our photo.
Synopsis
At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals tobecome a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And the the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture, to impose a pattern on his own, and America's past, present, and future.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPdel
- Title
- Americana
- Author
- DeLillo, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1971-01-01
- Weight
- 1.56 lbs
Terms of Sale
Chaparral Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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