Islands in the Stream
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1970. First edition w ""A""/BOMC. HC w DJ. MV VG/Good. Green cloth, gilt titling bright, spine cocked, light wear, some dulling to edges, stains to fore-edge, yellow map endpapers, clean, unmarked, binding sound. Unclipped DJ ($10.00), ""BOMC"" to flap, edgewear w nicks/chips, extremities rubbed, some open tears along edges, now in Brodart. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
Synopsis
Islands in the Stream was published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death. Thomas Hudon is an painter and adventurer in the 1930s, and this tale documents his voyages from Bimini to antisubmarine action in Cuba and beyond.
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Details
- Seller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 230038
- Title
- Islands in the Stream
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition w ""A""/BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 466
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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Nashville, Tennessee
About Refuge Books: Used & Rare
Refuge Books: Used & Rare. Buying and selling books in historic east Nashville, TN since 2012. Specializing in history, biography, Civil War, books on books, theology, Louisiana, the Inklings, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Wendell Berry, Flannery O'Connor, George Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Madeleine L'Engle, and Frederick Buechner. We welcome any and all inquiries.Instagram: @refugebooks
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- First Edition
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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...
- 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...