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The Build-Up. Stated First Printing
by Williams, William Carlos
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
A$268.01A$241.21
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition . Cloth-backed Paper Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Book in Fine Jacket. See scans and description. New York: Random House [1952]. First Edition. First Printing stated on copyright page. Octavo, 335 pp. Black cloth-backed orange paper boards, blue lettering on cover and spine; light buff dustjacket with black and red lettering on cover, spine and rear cover. Fine, flawless book in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, showing one 1 mm closed nick at upper left, front (see scan). Mylar protected. Striking condition. The third novel in Williams' White Mule trilogy about the Stecher family of immigrants and their lives in America; the first two were The White Mule [1937] and In the Money [1940]. L12n
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000183
- Title
- The Build-Up. Stated First Printing
- Author
- Williams, William Carlos
- Format/Binding
- Cloth-backed Paper Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 335
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- American, General, Literary, Classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Singularity Rare & Fine
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
About Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
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- Copyright page
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- First Edition
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