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Kid Andrew Cody & Julie Sparrow
by Curtis, Tony
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Curtis to New American Library marketing executive Maryann Palumbo with an additional TLS from Curtis laid in. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), lightly toned and rubbed, a few small bumps and closed tears. Quarter black buckram, lightly rubbed, with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, Palumbo's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Curtis's "free-wheeling, uninhibited tale about two young men who share the same father without ever knowing it," one who climbs the Las Vegas underworld and the other who finds his way in Hollywood.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7980
- Title
- Kid Andrew Cody & Julie Sparrow
- Author
- Curtis, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 20th Century Fiction, Modern Fiction, American Fiction, Hollywood, Gambling
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Fine
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- Buckram
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- New
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Bumps
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