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Hemingway
by Lynn, Kenneth S
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 067149872X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671498726
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 702, [2] p., 32 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Purple cloth spine with gilt spine title; grey paper over boards. Grey endpapers. Dust jacket with portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Elisabeth Lynn; dust jacket is price-clipped. Simon and Schuster sowing man remainder on lower page edges. Journalist and author, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. In "the most searching and incisive biography of Hemingway ever written, Kenneth Lynn penetrates the larger-than-life public image to reveal the complex personality and contradictory emotions of the real man." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: remainder mark; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges lightly rubbed; price-clipped; clean and bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008270
- Title
- Hemingway
- Author
- Lynn, Kenneth S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 067149872X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671498726
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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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