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Bicycle Days
by Schwartz, John Burnham
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0434677787
- ISBN 13
- 9780434677788
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First English Edition. Hardcover. 0434677787 . SIGNED by author on full title page. "Exploring the spell of family and of memory, Bicycle Days is the story of Alec Stern, a newly minted Yale graduate on assignment in Tokyo." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Text block is pulled away from spine head, small bumps on front corners and spine ends, spine partially cracked on full title page, edges of pages are tanned. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear, small creases on top corners and spine head. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 253 pages; Signed by Author(s) .
Synopsis
Jophn Burnham Schwartz is the autho of Reservation Road . He lives in New York City with his wife, filmmaker Aleksandra Crapanzano.
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62296
- Title
- Bicycle Days
- Author
- Schwartz, John Burnham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0434677787
- ISBN 13
- 9780434677788
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0434677787
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Title Page
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- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Fine
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