THE END OF MY LIFE
by Bourjaily, Vance
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.. 1947.. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrappper. The binding is bumped & there is a piece out of the head of the spine. A small piece of tape adheres to the bottom edge of the front cover & a small area of the top edge is rubbed where a similar piece has been removed. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with a piece out of the head of its spine. Tears & small pieces out of the jacket have been partially repaired with tape internally & on both flaps. 278 pages. There is a small, light glue stain to the bottom edge of each front endpaper. Good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>First edition of the author's first book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32264
- Title
- THE END OF MY LIFE
- Author
- Bourjaily, Vance
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.
- Date Published
- 1947.
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; WORLD WAR II; AMERICAN AUTHOR; THE END OF MY LIFE; FIRST BOOK; VANCE BOURJAILY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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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