Zip
by Max Apple
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Viking Press, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A perfect first edition of a novel of the left...and right. Unread and unopened. The book would be considered new, except it's 33 years old. Jacket is very fine with only light shelf wear. DJ is unclipped ($8.95) and protected in a mylar sleeve. " using the American landscape and our speeding passage through it to great effect, Max Apple is one of our funniest, smartest, most talented writers. His uses of American heroes and anti-heros, such as J. Edgar Hoover, are wonderfully hilarious and gentle" lets begin. so what's a nice Jewish boy like Ira Goldstein doing managing a flashy Puerto Rican middleweight names Jesus? What is his mother, a vital but previously chaste widow, doing in the brutal arms of Soloman, the scrap metal king of Detroit? How is Irs's skeptical grandmother going to cope with a boxer in the house who is also a Communist? And what, for toppers, is J. Edgar Hoover doing in a chair suspended over a boxing ring in Havana Cuba. Zip is a zap. They ought to name a town in North Dakota after it." ... Tom Robbins This fine collectible is protected in Mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000180
- Title
- Zip
- Author
- Max Apple
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 183
- Keywords
- First edition, first printing
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
Biblio member since 2017
Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Oshtemo Book Sellers
Rare finds with an emphasis on fiction, art, and signed first-editions. Oshtemo Book Sellers has an eye for quality and quirk.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...