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The Second Coming
by Walker Percy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Covington, Kentucky, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Farrar, Straus And Giroux, NY, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good Book/Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. First printing as stated. Signed by the author in ink directly to the title page. Red full cloth cover with gilt stamped title on spine. Cover is bright and clean with lightly bumped corners. Dust jacket shows moderate shelfwear and a few light scratches and indentations. 1/2" closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Chipping to spine ends. Light rubbing to corners. Verso of dustcover shows red dampstaining and ghosting from title on spine; book does not show evidence of dampstaining. Front flap shows one vertical crease, rear flap shows two creased corners. Dust jacket is not price clipped with $12.95 price on front flap. Tail edge of textblock shows shelfwear. Binding is square and fairly tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. 359 pages. 5-3/4 X 8-1/2.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roebling Point Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PEWA-01-C-0224
- Title
- The Second Coming
- Author
- Walker Percy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Roebling Point Books
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
Roebling Point Books
Biblio member since 2022
Covington, Kentucky
About Roebling Point Books
Roebling Rare is the online/antiquarian books division of Roebling Point Books, with bricks-and-mortar locations in Covington and Newport KY.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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