Fiddler's Green
by Gann, Ernest K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: William Sloane, 1950. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Vintage Dust Cover designed by Alan Haemer. Binding of clean and unmarked red cloth with gilt title panel on spne, red lettering; light wear to extremities; lower edge with a small indentation.Binding is tight and solid, square. Rough cut. Text block edges clean, top edge with publisher's red tint. Prev owner name in light pencil on endpaper. Text body is clean and free from any markings or underlining of text, pages toned. Red jacket is worn. rubbed, chipped, torn, ragged pieces missing from spine head/tail, holes in rear fold-over edge. Mylar Protective Jacket Cover. An adventure set in the fishing world off the Pacific Coast--the activity of men who work the fishing grounds and the quiet tension of the back streets of San Francisco. It is the tale of a man and his son, and of a great-hearted human who transformed a tough, smart, bitter outcast into a human being who felt and understood at last that there is more to life than its tricks and that the survival of the fittest does not necessarily mean the survival of the toughest. 286 pages. 8,5 x 5.75 inches. 1950, Publisher: William Sloane, New York, New York, USA
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- Seller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 013101
- Title
- Fiddler's Green
- Author
- Gann, Ernest K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- William Sloane
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE; PACIFIC COAST; FISHING; SAN FRANCISCO;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Adventure;
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.