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Ten North Frederick
by John O'Hara
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Cresset Press, London, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: The Cresset Press, London, 1956. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket has chunks missing, but is otherwise intact, with both flaps. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Drama & Sagas; Inventory No: 10090014..
Synopsis
John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. O'Hara was a keen observer of social status and class differences, and wrote frequently about the socially ambitious. His novel, Ten North Frederick, won the National Book Award in 1956. This exemplary novel chronicles the life of Joe Chapin. Set in the fictional town of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, Joe Chapin is an attorney and pillar of his community. He is intent on becoming the President of the United States. The underside of his seemingly perfect life are sexual secrets that could tear his family, and even his town, apart. O’Hara writes with impressive attention to detail and portrays an impassioned knowledge of the political circumstances of the times.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10090014
- Title
- Ten North Frederick
- Author
- John O'Hara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Cresset Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Ten North Frederick
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama & Sagas; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Manyhills Books
Biblio member since 2009
Traralgon, Victoria
About Manyhills Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
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