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City of Night
by John Rechy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, slightest cant to spine and gentlest wear to edges and corners/Very good, ends of spine have some chipping and wear, a couple 1/2" to 1" tears at bottom and top of cover where remnants of tap
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Grove Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. Hardcover octavo, black boards with silver spine lettering in a pictorial dust jacket, 410 pp. Very good, slightest cant to spine and gentlest wear to edges and corners/Very good, ends of spine have some chipping and wear, a couple 1/2" to 1" tears at bottom and top of cover where remnants of tape adhesive linger from the interior, some chipping at corners leading into clean flaps, some general wear and tear along perimeter aspects of this otherwise very nice dust jacket. Cover photo Richard Seaver.
Synopsis
City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. It was originally published in 1963 in New York by Grove Press. Earlier excerpts had appeared in Evergreen Review, Big Table, Nugget, and The London Magazine. City of Night is notable for its exposé approach to and stark depiction of hustling, as well as its stream of consciousness narrative style.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 391
- Title
- City of Night
- Author
- John Rechy
- Illustrator
- Cover photo Richard Seaver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo, black boards with silver spine lettering in a pictorial dust jacket, 410 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, slightest cant to spine and gentlest wear to edges and corners
- Jacket Condition
- Very good, ends of spine have some chipping and wear, a couple 1/2" to 1" tears at bottom and top of cover where remnants of tap
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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