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The Build-Up
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1952 [1965]. First Edition. First Printing, one of 684 copies acquired by New Directions in 1965 and issued with a New Directions sticker over the Random House name on the title page. Octavo (21.5cm); orange paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in royal blue on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [vi],335pp. Topstain faded, two tiny bumps to upper board edges, base of spine bumped, with a faint trace of staining from an old-style jacket protector to lower board edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some wear to spine-ends, and a few small tears; Very Good+. Third novel in Williams' Stecher Trilogy about an immigrant family and their lives in America (the first two were White Mule [1937] and In the Money [1940]). WALLACE A37.a.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52966
- Title
- The Build-Up
- Author
- WILLIAMS, William Carlos
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952 [1965]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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