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Billy
by French, Albert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670850136
- ISBN 13
- 9780670850136
- Seller
-
La Porte, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking/Penguin Group, 1993. BZ2 - A hard cover 2nd printing withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in gray paper covered boards quarter bound in white cloth with silver lettering and graphics on the spine with minor overall shelf wear with some tape staining on the outside surfaces of the front and back boards from where the dust jacket endflaps were taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, the title page, and the copyright page plus the book is very slightly shelf cocked plus there is some very, very light glue residue on the front free endpaper from a library pocket. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel set in 1930s Mississippi about the death of a girl in an accident and the state's killing of one African-American boy who is convicted and executed for murdering her. This is the author's first novel. 214p.. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 6"x8.75". Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW11661
- Title
- Billy
- Author
- French, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670850136
- ISBN 13
- 9780670850136
- Publisher
- Viking/Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Fiction General Fiction Literary Novel Literary Fiction Racial Issues Race Racialism South Southern States Jim Crow Mississippi 1930s Thirties 93-14676
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / African-American Literature; Fiction / Author's First Novel; Social Sciences / Racial Issues; Fiction / Ethnic Fiction;
- Size
- 6"x8.75"
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- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- 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...
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