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The Island
by Benchley, Peter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385131720
- ISBN 13
- 9780385131728
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First printing, hardcover. A couple of small spots on top page edges, else a tight lightly used near fine copy with no remainder marks in a very good price clipped dust jacket (light edge wear, minor rubbing to the rear panel, a white paint drip on the front panel underneath the "T" in Peter). Now protected in an archival cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Again, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4296
- Title
- The Island
- Author
- Benchley, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385131720
- ISBN 13
- 9780385131728
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1979
Terms of Sale
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All purchases can be returned within 10 days with prior notification. Buyer pays for return shipping costs unless we have made a mistake with the order.
About the Seller
Books Again, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Atlanta, Georgia
About Books Again, Inc.
We are an open book store with 30,000, mostly hardcover books in stock. Our hours are 10-6 EST and we are located in downtown Decatur, Georgia which is 6 miles east of Atlanta.
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- 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...
- Remainder
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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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...
- Fine
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