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
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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, light edge wear and small tears to jacket. 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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- Bookseller
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37590
- Title
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
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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.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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