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Getting Up and Going Home (Franklin Library First Edition Society series)
by ANDERSON, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Leather. A first edition of Robert Anderson's novel, a story of an affair between a man and a woman, each of whom love their spouses. With a special introductory note by the author and illustrations by Barnett Plotkin. Issued as part of the publisher's First Edition Society series which preceded the Simon & Schuster trade edition. One of an unspecified limited number in the series. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Text presented on quality papers. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Orange silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy with four small white marks to front cover fore-edge and creases to the corner of a leaf near front of book; otherwise bright, newish and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (14), 257 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87131
- Title
- Getting Up and Going Home (Franklin Library First Edition Society series)
- Author
- ANDERSON, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1978
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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