Far Tortuga
by Peter Matthiessen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Good- (Good)
- ISBN 10
- 039449461X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394494616
- Seller
-
Bath, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House. Light fading to covers, small damp stain to bottom corner of cover and the corner of a few pages, top edge of pages blue pained with random house icon stamp, pages very bright and very good+. Dust jacket scuffed, lightly stained, edge worn, creased tear at top of spine, in Brodart. First edition, first printing with number line beginning at "2" in standard Random House practice at the time. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1975.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97287
- Title
- Far Tortuga
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good- (Good)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039449461X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394494616
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- fiction; sailing; adventure
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
Biblio member since 2013
Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 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....
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...