In Search of Adam
by Wendt, Herbert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1956., 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, slightly cocked else near fine, no dj. Green cloth, gilt on spine. First American Edition. Trans from the German by James Cleugh. Illus. with photos 48 b/w Plates, and line cuts. Riverside Press. originally published in Germany in 1955 under title: Ich Suchte Adam (and in Great Britain under title: I Looked for Adam). 3 sections of photographs.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19209
- Title
- In Search of Adam
- Author
- Wendt, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1956.
- Date Published
- 1956
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Cocked
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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