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Confessions of a Knife
by Richard Selzer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067124292X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671242923
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Attractive first edition book in clean unclipped dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards with gray cloth spine, red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear; very light foxing. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages are clean with clean gray endpapers - small remainder mark on top text block. 223 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A compassionate surgeon who is also a superb writer shares the mysteries of medicine, life, and the human body..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034517
- Title
- Confessions of a Knife
- Author
- Richard Selzer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 067124292X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671242923
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, SURGEON, RICHARD SELZER, FIRST EDITION, MEDICAL SURGERY, MEDICINE, DOCTORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical/Health;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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