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The House of the Solitary Maggot (Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys, part two)
by Purdy, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385044135
- ISBN 13
- 9780385044134
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author across from the title page. Pages bright and clean except for light foxing along the head and foreedges and light ink spray on the heel edge; no owners' marks; binding square and secure, cloth hard cover (one-quarter black, balance in green) softened at the spine ends and mildly shelfworn at spine ends and corners. Dustjacket is moderately faded along the spine and bears small tears, chips, and creases at both spine ends as well as at the free corners, and there are a few tiny surface nicks on the front as well as a thin line of rubbing along the left front edge, a line of toning and gray smudging along the rear foreedge, and a few little chips along the top and bottom edges of the jacket, otherwise sound and attractive, unclipped, now protected in a clear sleeve. 360pp.; Signed by Author.
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- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 069253
- Title
- The House of the Solitary Maggot (Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys, part two)
- Author
- Purdy, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385044135
- ISBN 13
- 9780385044134
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed by Author;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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Using and Collecting Bookmarks
Bern Marcowitz warns against paperclips and other inappropriate page-savers, and offers a bit of advice on using and collecting bookmarks.
