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Black Alice
by Thom Demijohn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Salina, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
>DISCH, Thomas and John T. Sladek
>BLACK ALICE by Thom Demijohn.
Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968
Used -very good: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in Dust Jacket. First edition. Octavo, original two-toned cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. Spine is a clean, tight, very good copy in dust wrapper . Has a previous owners name in ink on the first cover page. ¶ A bizarre, satirical suspense novel reworking the Alice in Wonderland theme and concerning race relations in the 1960's. First edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Melissa Adkins
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 174
- Title
- Black Alice
- Author
- Thom Demijohn
- Format/Binding
- Good tight
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare; Collectable; Cultural; Fiction; Vintage; Classic; Book Club Edition;
Terms of Sale
Melissa Adkins
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
Melissa Adkins
Biblio member since 2022
Salina, Kansas
About Melissa Adkins
Not really a business, just a lover of books, and old books.
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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....
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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
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