Far Tortuga
by Matthiessen, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Near Fine
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First edition of Matthiessen's fifth novel, signed on the title. A bit of edgewear and sunning to edges of book and jacket, front hinge a touch weak and front free endpaper loosening. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 047540.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047540
- Title
- Far Tortuga
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Fiction; NOISBN
Terms of Sale
Pazzo Books
Returns accepted for any reason within 30 days of shipment - full refund less shipping. If we have made a mistake, we will pay shipping both ways. Institutions billed according to their requirements.
About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...