SETTING FREE THE BEARS
by Irving, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 335 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. White spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has open tearing to head edge of front cover, black mark on spine, and light toning to edges. Textblock has top corner of front endpaper clipped. Shelved Room A. John Irving's first book. 1372915. Special Collections.
Synopsis
This is about the novel; for the organization, see Free the Bears Fund. Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving’s understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the sixties.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1372915
- Title
- SETTING FREE THE BEARS
- Author
- Irving, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...