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Heading West
by BETTS, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394517989
- ISBN 13
- 9780394517988
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394517989 . Stated first edition. Per the jacket flap, this novel is the story of a ". . .bright, spiky, vital woman in her thirties, fleeing the murderous boredom of her spinster life-and into her deepening and mysterious complicity with the unbalanced stranger who has kidnapped her." --- In terra-cotta paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with titling in copper foil to spine. Dust jacket with Mark Morrow photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A very nice copy but with a lack of crispness that comes with aging to covers and with rubberstamped remainder mark to textblock top edge; interior clean, bright and tightly bound. Unclipped jacket with rubbing and minor chafing to edges, otherwise bright and intact.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 359 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83325
- Title
- Heading West
- Author
- BETTS, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394517989
- ISBN 13
- 9780394517988
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0394517989
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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