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By the Rivers of Babylon
by DeMille, Nelson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- N-Fine/N-Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151152780
- ISBN 13
- 9780151152780
- Seller
-
Lewisville, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Book. N-Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight un-read copy. This copy has some very minor page edge soil. The 10.00 jacket has some very light rubbing wear, minor edge wear, browning at extremities. Pretty nice over-all copy of a hard to find book. The author's first hardback release. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. This copy includes a picture of Nelson that I snapped at the signing event. MD stamped on the bottom edge of the text block..
Synopsis
By the Rivers of Babylon is a 1978 thriller novel by Nelson DeMille. The plot focuses on two Concorde jets that are flying to a U.N. meeting that will bring peace to the Middle East. However, en route to the meeting, the two jets are hijacked by terrorists, and forced to crash land near the ruins of Babylon. Once crashed, the occupants of the jets must defend themselves against an army of Palestinian troops while the Israelis attempt to mount a rescue mission.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032724
- Title
- By the Rivers of Babylon
- Author
- DeMille, Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - N-Fine
- Jacket Condition
- N-Fine
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151152780
- ISBN 13
- 9780151152780
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- //
Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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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