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From the Diary of a Snail
by Grass, Gunter, Manheim, Ralph, translator
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0436187892
- ISBN 13
- 9780436187896
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Secker & Warburg Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0436187892 . Green cloth boards with gilt titls to the spine. This is a very nice copy with sharp corners, a tight binding and light spine end bumping, unmarked. The DJ has been price clipped, is intact with discoloration to the spine end page edges. "The German novelist's experiences campaigning for Willy Brandt provide a portrait of Grass the family man, writer, and concerned citizen, and a meditation on his nation's history and civilization's progress. "; 1.3 x 8.6 x 5.6 Inches; 310 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10897
- Title
- From the Diary of a Snail
- Author
- Grass, Gunter, Manheim, Ralph, translator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0436187892
- ISBN 13
- 9780436187896
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- 0436187892, Germany
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; Political Science;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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