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The Bridge at Andau
by James A. Michener
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1957. VG/VG. First Edition. Stated First printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips. Light creases to spine ends and faint soiling to boards. The textblock has paperclip indentation to front and back of half-title page, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped with $3.50 original price and 3/57 Date Code on the front flap. One-inch closed tear to upper panel, faint soiling spine head edge and light wear (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 270 pages. 5½ x 9¼
James A. Michener's classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future—until, at four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest awoke to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over. But freedom beckoned in the form of a small footbridge at Andau, on the Austrian border. By an accident of history it became, for a few harrowing weeks, one of the most important crossings in the world, as the soul of a nation fled across its unsteady planks.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3853
- Title
- The Bridge at Andau
- Author
- James A. Michener
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 270
- Size
- 5.5 x 9.25
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- historical, Hungarian Revolution
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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