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A Very Different Love Story
by Stainback, Berry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0688030890
- ISBN 13
- 9780688030896
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: William Morrow & Compnay Inc., 1976. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. The amazingly "bizarre love story" of Burt & Linda Pugach, bound together by violence but unable to stay apart after decades spent in their own forms of prison. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1976, this hardcover 8vo has a blue cloth-wrapped spine, lettered in gilt, with mustard-colored paper over boards. Condition is VG+: slight rubbing & paper loss to lower edges, mild corner bumping, heavy foxing to exterior page edges only. Interior is completely clean, unmarked save for former owner's name & date to ffep. Binding strong & straight. The unclipped DJ is VG+, marred only by a few tiny spots; else, colorful & bright with very light soil; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.Condition is : very clean, binding strong & straight, pages off-white with very slight tanning, heavier around edges, but completely unmarked. the DJ is VG, with rubbing to extremities, minor chipping to corners & both ends of spine. Nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023347
- Title
- A Very Different Love Story
- Author
- Stainback, Berry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0688030890
- ISBN 13
- 9780688030896
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Compnay Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology-Psychiatry-Mental Health/Illness; Crime: True Crime;
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Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
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