Baker Towers
by Haigh, Jennifer
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060509414
- ISBN 13
- 9780060509415
- Seller
-
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow, 2005. Signed and inscribed on title page Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 334 deckle edged pages From dust jacket: "Bakerton is a company town built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters' breakfasts and firemen's parades. Its children are raised in company houses... Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest serves on a minesweeper... His sister Dorothy (is) a fragile beauty... Brilliant Joyce longs to devote herself to something of consequence... Sandy sails through life on looks and charm, and Lucy, the volatile baby, devours the family's attention... (This book) is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past and the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation." Bumped head and heel of spine, spine is very slightly cocked. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006837
- Title
- Baker Towers
- Author
- Haigh, Jennifer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0060509414
- ISBN 13
- 9780060509415
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Signed; First Edition; fiction; novel; Coal miners; Coal mining;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Novels; Signed; First Editions;
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...