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The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair, ex-library with related stamps, stickers, and wear, writing throughout in margins, jacket is affixed to boards, cracked fr/Fair jacket, in library plastic, torn at edges of flaps where affixed to boards, cannot be removed from book, wear consistent wi
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine, in illustrated dust jacket, 272 pp. Fair, ex-library with related stamps, stickers, and wear, writing throughout in margins, jacket is affixed to boards, cracked front hinge, significant wear to edges of boards, tape around flaps and onto pastedowns./Fair jacket, in library plastic, torn at edges of flaps where affixed to boards, cannot be removed from book, wear consistent with history as library book.. Kosinski's most famous and infamous book.
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- Seller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 549
- Title
- The Painted Bird
- Author
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine, in illustrated dust jacket, 272 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair, ex-library with related stamps, stickers, and wear, writing throughout in margins, jacket is affixed to boards, cracked fr
- Jacket Condition
- Fair jacket, in library plastic, torn at edges of flaps where affixed to boards, cannot be removed from book, wear consistent wi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- kosinski, polish literature, literary scandal, war fiction, world war two fiction, plagiarism
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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