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A Drinking Life
by Hamill, Pete
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0316341088
- ISBN 13
- 9780316341080
- Seller
-
Hartland, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition : Signed. Hardcover. 0316341088 . Octovo hardcover, clean pages, none marked or torn, tight binding, covers unworn, edges lightly smudged, else VG++ ro NF in bright intact untorn lightly rubbed DJ, VG+++ to NFINE also. Flat signed on title page. Also an unworn "Drinking Life" post card is laid-in. "This is an honest, thoughtful, richly detailed memoir...belongs on same shelf with Jack London's 'John Barleycorn'"- E L Doctorow; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mossback Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25753
- Title
- A Drinking Life
- Author
- Hamill, Pete
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition : Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0316341088
- ISBN 13
- 9780316341080
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0316341088, ALCOHOL;
Terms of Sale
Mossback Books
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About the Seller
Mossback Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About Mossback Books
Sales through the internet and at book shows in the midwest.
Glossary
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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...
- Title Page
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. 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...
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