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Deliverance [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by DICKEY, James
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in olive green on spine and front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; [x],278pp. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Faint foxing to spine, tiny indentation to upper front board; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears and creases, scattered foxing on verso, and a small abrasion to lower right corner of front cover; Very Good+. Dickey's first novel, basis for John Boorman's 1972 survival film starring John Voight, Burt Reynolds, and Ned Beatty. BRUCCOLI A15.1.a.
Synopsis
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reviews
On Jun 6 2007, Trackstar_girl said:
i myself really enjoyed reading this book very much. although at first i wasnt too into the book in the heart it had my complete full attention. i would refer this book to anyone who loves to read and adventures.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58240
- Title
- Deliverance [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
- Author
- DICKEY, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1970
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; The South;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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