The Great Fake Book. First Edition
by Bourjaily, Vance
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1986. Leather Bound. Unpaginated preliminaries including VB's signature leaf, his two-page introduction (short, but a good one), the b&w frontispiece (a thronged doublespread), 505p., a true first edition (simultaneous with the trade publisher's first), hardbound in 9.5x6 inch reconstituted leather boards gilt. Fine copy, with Franklin's trademark bells & whistles: raised bands, all edges gilded, placekeep ribbon, moire' endsheets, Franklin's "Dear Collector" leaflet laid in. As new, absolutely sound, clean and unmarked. Signed first edition society.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 248718
- Title
- The Great Fake Book. First Edition
- Author
- Bourjaily, Vance
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay Studies; Modern first edition; Americana; North Carolina;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Raised Band(s)
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- First Edition
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