Swan Watch
by Schulberg, Budd
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. 0440060268 . Photorgraphs by Geraldine Brooks. 57 Photographs in color and black and white. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Inscription reads, "For Rolland E. Comstock, To round out the collection. Best, Budd Schulberg 4/3/92. "Budd Schulerg's Swan Watch is more than a book, it is a very nice thing that happens to you. It is a quiet place in the soul and a reaffirmation of lingering humanity in a noisy and meaninglessly boisterous woerld." - Roger Caras, author of Vanishing Wildlife. Ships same or next business day. Head and tail edges of boards are tanned, spine is very gently bumped, front tail edge of board has two tiny dents, verso of free endpaper toward the bottom shows some of the spine webbing. Price clipped. Dust jacket head and tail edges are tanned, shelf and edge wear with chips and tears, protected in an archival cover. ; Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 151 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62567
- Title
- Swan Watch
- Author
- Schulberg, Budd
- Illustrator
- Geraldine Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- 0440060268
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