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The Journey of August King (SIGNED)
by Ehle, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 218 pages. Hardcover in a light brown dust jacket. The jacket has a large (nearly 2 1/2 inch) triangular chip at the spine of the jacket. The outer edges of the text block are foxed. Previous owner's name on the half title. Signed by the author on the title page. There is also a prior owner's signature (North Carolina historian Lindley S. Butler) on the half title. Stated First Edition on the copyright page.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050013
- Title
- The Journey of August King (SIGNED)
- Author
- Ehle, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1971; John Ehle; Novel; Literature; Fiction; North Carolina Literature; North Carolina; Signed; Lindley S. Butler.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies; North Carolina Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
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