The Mackerel Plaza
by de Vries, Peter
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: age toning to edges of boards and spine, toning and offset to paste downs, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding t/DJ good: age toning, edge and corner wear, chipping, NOT clipped ($3.75)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1958. first edition. hardcover. very good: age toning to edges of boards and spine, toning and offset to paste downs, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: age toning, edge and corner wear, chipping, NOT clipped ($3.75). 8vo 260pp. from front flap: "A man wants to take a second wife while the town is still busily commemorating his departed first--that is Andrew Mackerel's predicament in a nutshell." #01268.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1199
- Title
- The Mackerel Plaza
- Author
- de Vries, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: age toning to edges of boards and spine, toning and offset to paste downs, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding t
- Jacket Condition
- DJ good: age toning, edge and corner wear, chipping, NOT clipped ($3.75)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- fiction, first edition
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...