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The Touch
by Daniel Keyes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 7.75in. 215pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: 'Inscribed for, Olive and Lee, my wonderful neighbors, with best wishes. Daniel Keyes. Athens, Ohio. Dec. 22, 1968.' VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows marginal shelf rubbing along the extremities, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows light chipping of the head and foot of the spine, shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with some small nicks and chips, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L622
- Title
- The Touch
- Author
- Daniel Keyes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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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