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Drowning Towers
by George Turner
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1557100381
- ISBN 13
- 9781557100382
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988 Arbor House/William Morrow, New York. 1988. Hardcover. Stated First U.S. Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight stain on tail; textblock fore edge smudging from thumbing pages; light shelfwear to board bottom edges; factory folding defect to page 318. DJ: Near Fine +; NOT Price Clipped ($18.95); light bumping to top edge of DJ. Blue paper over boards with off-white cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 318 pp 8vo. This book is a bildungsroman, the story of a young boy growing up in a future city that is overpopulated, automated to the point where only the privileged have jobs and decent housing, and being progressively fludded by the rising waters of the world's oceans- a process that brings chaotic weather and worldwide food shortages. This is the gripping, intense, sometimes violent story of live in the face of a long slow disaster. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013698
- Title
- Drowning Towers
- Author
- George Turner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1557100381
- ISBN 13
- 9781557100382
- Publisher
- Arbor House/William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- science fiction, SF Novel, future city, weather disasters, climate change, ocean flooding, bildungsroman, overpopulation, unemployment, fiction, science fiction,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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