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The Executioner's Song
by NORMAN MAILER
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316544175
- ISBN 13
- 9780316544177
- Seller
-
Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone to text pages, soil present to text block edge; sound binding; cloth cover has rub wear and bump to corners, rub wear to front panel, thin fade along edges, little rub to otherwise bright titling; dj has prior damp stain on dj verso at spine heel; dj edge wear: rubbing, short tears, small nicks, some compression; flap price clipped Wllebi
Synopsis
This novel is noteworthy for its portrayal of Gary Gilmore, a violent product of America's prisons who became known for two reasons: first for robbing and murdering two men in 1976, and second, after being tried and convicted, he insisting on dying for his crime. In order to do so, he had to fight a system that seemed ironically intent to keep him alive. The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13037
- Title
- The Executioner's Song
- Author
- NORMAN MAILER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316544175
- ISBN 13
- 9780316544177
- Publisher
- Little, Brown And Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1979
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
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