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Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar
by Clarence Major
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+, slightest push to tail of spine, some light highlighting throughout text by former owner./Very Good+ jacket, very minor handling wear.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1988. First edition. 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated jacket, 160 pp. Good+, slightest push to tail of spine, some light highlighting throughout text by former owner./Very Good+ jacket, very minor handling wear.. One of 26 signed and lettered copies, of which this is letter "k," signed a second time on title page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 885
- Title
- Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar
- Author
- Clarence Major
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated jacket, 160 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+, slightest push to tail of spine, some light highlighting throughout text by former owner.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ jacket, very minor handling wear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Sun and Moon
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- clarence major, black fiction, american literature, black literature
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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