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The Hill of Summer: A Novel of the Soviet Conquest (Franklin Library First Edition Society series)
by DRURY, Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Leather. A deluxe Franklin Library first edition of Allen Drury's novel, in which the United States and the U.S.S.R. confront one another to the point of near-nuclear conflict. With illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. Issued as part of the publisher's First Edition Society series which preceded the Doubleday trade edition. Includes a prefatory note by the author. One in a limited edition of an unspecified number of copies. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" leaflet is lain in. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Text presented on quality papers. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges (AEG) all in bright gilt. Dark red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A very nice copy: bright, newish and probably unread, but with scuffing to back cover and slight scratches to textblock edge gilding.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (20), 533 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87694
- Title
- The Hill of Summer: A Novel of the Soviet Conquest (Franklin Library First Edition Society series)
- Author
- DRURY, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize;
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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....
- Gilt
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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- Jacket
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