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Shadow & Act
by Ralph Ellison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with soiled top edge in a Good dust jacket, unclipped, with chipped spine ends, chipped, joints torn and rubbed, front
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1964. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 317 pp. Very Good with soiled top edge in a Good dust jacket, unclipped, with chipped spine ends, chipped, joints torn and rubbed, front panel creased and torn, sunned rear panel.. Jacket design by Howard Gray; photograph by Chris Corpus. Pasted down publisher's plate to front free end paper denoting this copy as a a gift from the author opposite the personal bookplate of its recipient, novelist Thomas Berger, to pastedown.
Synopsis
A collection of writings from Ralph Ellison (author of Invisible Man ) that spans an era from World War II to the Vietnam War.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1702
- Title
- Shadow & Act
- Author
- Ralph Ellison
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Howard Gray; photograph by Chris Corpus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 317 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with soiled top edge in a Good dust jacket, unclipped, with chipped spine ends, chipped, joints torn and rubbed, front
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Ralph Ellison, Shadow & Act
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
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