Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
by Salinger, J.D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo, dust jacket over blue cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. 248pp. First UK edition. Dust jacket sunned with some chipping and a couple small pieces missing. Inner book generally very good and clean inside. Previous owner’s initials, dated 1963, handwritten on front free endpaper. 2 stories originally published in the New Yorker featuring Seymour Glass, one of a family of settlers in twentieth century New York.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2550
- Title
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
- Author
- Salinger, J.D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- American novelist, family life, mid century america, suburban america, immigrant life, immigrants, New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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