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City Life
by Barthelme, Donald
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Houston, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Inscribed by the Author. First Printing.. 168 pages. Hardcover, first printing, bound in red cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: for B.R. and Adolph / with all best-- / Don / May 1970. Light shelfwear to the edges of the dustjacket, which is not price clipped and now encased in a Mylar sleeve. The binding is tight and solid, the edges and corners of the boards are sharp, with no other markings to the interior. A collection of short stories. The author's fourth published book..
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- Bookseller
- Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019490
- Title
- City Life
- Author
- Barthelme, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing.
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Collectibles;
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About the Seller
Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Houston, Texas
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- Price Clipped
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Edges
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
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