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The Executioner's Song
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0316544175
- ISBN 13
- 9780316544177
- Seller
-
Livingston, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author on half-title page. Blue cloth with gilt and white spine titling. Orange endpapers. Illustrated jacket with author photo on back. Bumping to spine ends, sunning to top edge of boards and light soiling to text block edges. Price-clipped jacket with minor edge wear and chipping. Previous owner's name, "J. Gioia" on a front blank leaf. Joe Gioia was a senior editor at Modern Photography, a contributing editor at American Photo, an early contributor to Salon[dot]com, and the author of The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History and Divide's Guide to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book comes from his private estate.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36166
- Title
- The Executioner's Song
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316544175
- ISBN 13
- 9780316544177
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1979
Terms of Sale
Elk River Books
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About the Seller
Elk River Books
Biblio member since 2010
Livingston, Montana
About Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
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- Chipping
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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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....
- 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...
- Jacket
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- Text Block
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