In the Fog
by E. W. [Edmund Witherell] Nash
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good+
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. First British Edition. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pages clean. Dust jacket has light chipping at corners; small chip and tear at foot of front panel; minor smudge on front panel; not price clipped (30/- net). DJ in clear archival sleeve. 374 pp. 8 x 5.5 inches. In the Fog is an astringently comic novel of life in the Bay Area, likely inspired by the author's own experience in the San Francisco real estate industry. The names of places are changed, but identifiable: San Francisco is Portal, Sausalito is Bontempo, Telegraph Hill is Welcome Hill, etc. At the time this was written the author was a resident of Wolfback Ridge in Sausalito. Edmund Witherell "Ted" Nash (1917-2003) American author and editor and nephew of Ogden Nash.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004389
- Title
- In the Fog
- Author
- E. W. [Edmund Witherell] Nash
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- fiction, novel, San Francisco, Bay Area,
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Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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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...
- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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