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A Fistful of Fig Newtons

by Shepherd, Jean

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
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About This Item

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1981. 265 pp. Red cloth boards with gold lettering and details on the cover and spine. Barely any visible signs of use. Red colorful dust jacket with chip at the bottom of the spine, tiny chips along the extremities, light toning to the spine. Light orange endpapers. Deckled edge of text block. Clean, bright pages are unmarked. Tight binding and square text block. This book "offers a bittersweet view of life that will provoke chuckles of wry self-recognition.". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo.

Synopsis

For many years a cult radio and cabaret personality in New York City, JEAN SHEPHERD was the creator of the popular film A Christmas Story , which is based on his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network. He passed away in 1999.

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Bookseller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
031625
Title
A Fistful of Fig Newtons
Author
Shepherd, Jean
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Doubleday & Co.
Place of Publication
Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published
1981
Keywords
Novel, American, Humor, Humorist, Funny, Comic, Comedian, Americana
Size
Octavo

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About the Seller

The Chatham Bookseller, LLC

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About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC

The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.

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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...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Text Block
Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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....

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