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The Horse Knows The Way; A Collection of 28 New Stories
by O'Hara, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1964. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. John Cheever's copy--no ownership marks but with a folded sheet of Cheever's Boston letterhead loosely inserted. First edition, 1964. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 429 pp., Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, straining to the front inner hinge, pencil-notes to the table of contents (presumably in Cheever's hand), age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, dust jacket with some age-toning as well, dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the edges including creasing, closed tearing, and a bit of loss at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. The letterhead bears a Cheever residence in Boston, but the provenance for this volume was his personal library at his home in Ossining, NY.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s00017358
- Title
- The Horse Knows The Way; A Collection of 28 New Stories
- Author
- O'Hara, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Closed Tearing
- Closed tear indicates a torn page in which no material has been lost. A closed tear can be pressed back into place or sometimes...
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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