Timebends, A Life
by Miller, Arthur
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards; in illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by Miller to Louis Auchincloss. With numerous personal additions by Auchincloss: 2 b/w photographs adhered to the paste-downs (both from an evening at the National Arts Club award ceremony in 1992, which Auchincloss hosted), and a full-color 5-by-7-inch snapshot taken in Russia, of Auchincloss, Miller, and the playwright Charles Fuller, neatly affixed to front flyleaf. The front cover of the paperback edition is adhered to the FFEP. Book is very gently rubbed at spine tips, else fine. Dust jacket a little sunned along spine, else fine, in mylar.
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- Bookseller
- Sanctuary Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JC8200
- Title
- Timebends, A Life
- Author
- Miller, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- 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....
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