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From A Distant Place [Signed]
by Carpenter, Don
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Collectible signed copy of Carpenter's ninth novel and the last to be published during his lifetime, a dark but honest reckoning with suburban malaise playing out among the members of a fractured family in Marin County, California. First edition. Signed by Carpenter on front fly-leaf. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); 230pp.; red papered boards backed with blue quarter-cloth, gold spine lettering; in unclipped ("$17.95") dustjacket. Spine mildly cocked forward, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001708
- Title
- From A Distant Place [Signed]
- Author
- Carpenter, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1988
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Dividing Line Books
Biblio member since 2016
Ridgewood, New York
About Dividing Line Books
Dividing Line Books offers interesting and rare books in the fields of modern literature and counterculture, with developing specialties in artists' books, the psychedelic movement, and other avant-garde streams of the 20th century and beyond. Member IOBA.
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fly-Leaf
- ...
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