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Hence
by Leithauser, Brad
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good + DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0394573110
- ISBN 13
- 9780394573113
- Seller
-
Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good + DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Green cloth covers, slight fading at edges, very clean and tight inside and out. Dustjacket clean and crisp, spine faded. There is crease along the lower edge of entire surface of dj. "Hence tells the story of the famous chess match played by brilliant, twenty-one-year-old timothy Briggs at MIT back in 1993 against ANNDY, a wise-cracking, presumably unbeatable computer chess program that can search 365,000 positions in a second."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F5898
- Title
- Hence
- Author
- Leithauser, Brad
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good + DJ
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394573110
- ISBN 13
- 9780394573113
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 320pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
- First Edition
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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