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LEGACY
by Michener, James A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394564324
- ISBN 13
- 9780394564326
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0394564324 . Publisher's full red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, fore-edge deckle, decorated endpapers. . Spine is slightly cocked, gilt on spine and cover is rubbed and faded, a few tiny white speckles on rear cover, top edge tan speckled, else unmarked, tight and clean. Price clipped dust jacket has very slight rubbing to the head of the spine and the upper tip of the front cover. VERY GOOD/ VERY GOOD. . 8vo (6 x 8.5"). 176 pp .
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15909
- Title
- LEGACY
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394564324
- ISBN 13
- 9780394564326
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0394564324, Fiction;, (historical)
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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