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Youngblood Hawke
by Wouk, Herman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Wouk, and dated in St. Thomas in 1962. Gray boards with gilt decoration to the front board. Small stains to the cloth, and uneven age toning. A pull to the headband. The dust jacket has modest rubbing to the spine. A dust smudge and a small closed tear to the rear panel. The dust jacket has a sticker ghost to the front flap, and the publisher's price of $7.95. A novel about an author's self destruction. The basis for the movie directed by Delmer Daves. ; 783 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25701
- Title
- Youngblood Hawke
- Author
- Wouk, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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....
- 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...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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