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THE EIGHTH DAY
by Wilder, Thornton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1967. Stated 1st. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's navy cloth over light blue cloth, gilt lettering and border on spine, fore-edge deckle, blue endpapers. . Head of spine bumped, yellow spots on covers, corners bumped, bottom edge soiled, top edge foxed, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, has several tears, some loss to edge of spine, former bookstore's label on back panel, else good. VERY GOOD/FAIR.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 435 pp .
Synopsis
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes and won the National Book Award in 1968 for his famous novel, The Eighth Day . The story is set in a mining town in southern Illinois in the early 1900’s. John Ashley, a gifted engineer as well as an accused murderer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting of his best friend during their friendly weekly rifle practice. His flight to freedom comes on the eve of his execution and the mystery continues to haunt the victim’s young wife and children. The book moves forward and backward in time to explore the reactions of the community and of the family to the bizarre events that transpire. A beautifully written family sage by one of America’s most epic authors.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10620
- Title
- THE EIGHTH DAY
- Author
- Wilder, Thornton
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated 1st. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Fiction;, Coaltown, Illinois, 1902, MURDER trial, Romance
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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