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Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. with drawings by the author
by Vonnegut, Kurt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing 1973. [16], 295, [5] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Orange cloth with gilt spine title and facsimile author's signature on front cover. Black endpapers; top page edges yellow. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. "Emulating Tolstoy, who freed his serfs, and Jefferson, who freed his slaves, Kurt Vonnegut bids farewell and Godspeed to all of the literary characters who have worked so hard for him over the years." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: pages edges are lightly soiled; former owner's name on blank page preceding half title; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: lower half of front section scraped; spine is faded; chipping at ends of spine; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of back section; clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010245
- Title
- Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. with drawings by the author
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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