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Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
by Brautigan, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, United States
7 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 128. Dark gray cloth with silver spine titling. Light gray endpapers. Gray, black and white jacket with image of Brautigan, publisher's price sticker, $7.95, on front flap. Remainder mark to bottom of text block. Rubbing and light edge wear to jacket, else fine. From a box shipped from the publisher directly to the author when he was living at Pine Creek outside of Livingston, Montana. [Barber 56]
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37589
- Title
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 7
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
Elk River Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Elk River Books
Biblio member since 2010
Livingston, Montana
About Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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