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Riders on the Earth Essays and Recollections
by MacLeish, Archibald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395263824
- ISBN 13
- 9780395263822
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395263824 . "This is a book of strong convictions about the belief in man. It was written, most of it, in a bad time, the decade of the Vietnam War and of corruption in high places." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Spine is skewed and slightly loose, moderate edge wear, small bumps on spine ends, light soiling on head edge, faded on edges of endpapers; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear, lightly yellowed, slightly faded on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68851
- Title
- Riders on the Earth Essays and Recollections
- Author
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395263824
- ISBN 13
- 9780395263822
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- 0395263824
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- Bookplate
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- Paste-down
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- Fine
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- Shelf Wear
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- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
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- Edges
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