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Nightwing
by Smith, Martin Cruz
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Poor
- ISBN 10
- 0393087832
- ISBN 13
- 9780393087833
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: Wendell Minor -- Cover Art. 256pp., last blank. Illustrated endpapers, by map of the Hopi and Navajo lands (Painted Lands area). 1/4 brown cloth spine with copper writing. 3/4 blue coloured boards with embossed illustration to the front panel. Pale red coloured tint to the top text block edge. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine. Shelfwear to the top and bottom book edges. Dust marks and very faint foxing to the text block edges. Fading of the extreme cloth edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Wendell Minor, with grey and orange titles author photograph to the rear dustwrapper panel. Heavy rubbing and fading to the dustwrapper panels, the spine being particularly affected. Rubbing and slight chipping to the dust wrapper corners and to the top and bottom edges of the backstrip. The back fold over has 2 creases running its full-length. Dustwrapper is price clipped, front fold, top right hand corner. The verso of the dustwrapper is brown and discoloured, particularly the spine area. An old Hopi medicine man sets into action, the end of the world. Only Youngman Duran, a reluctant deputy and former convict, can put it to rights. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Wendell Minor -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0393087832. ISBN/EAN: 9780393087833. Inventory No: 0102645. . 9780393087833
Synopsis
Martin J. Smith is a veteran journalist and magazine editor. He has won more than 40 newspaper and magazine writing awards, and four times was nominated by his newspaper for the Pulitzer Prize. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he began writing professionally while a student at Pennsylvania State University in the late 1970s. His 15-year career as a newspaper reporter took him around the world, from the rural poverty of Southwestern Pennsylvania to Nevada?s Mustang Ranch bordello; from the riot-torn streets of Los Angeles to the revolutionary streets of Manila; from pre-glasnost Siberia to the new frontier of cyberspace. He currently is editor-at-large of Orange Coast magazine in Orange County, Calif., a regional monthly magazine he edited for four years. Smith lives with his wife and their two children in Southern California, where he remains part of an often overlooked minority -- the Soccer Dad. You can email the author at enos@ix.netcom.com
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0102645
- Title
- Nightwing
- Author
- Smith, Martin Cruz
- Illustrator
- Wendell Minor -- Cover Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393087832
- ISBN 13
- 9780393087833
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Fantasy, Hopi Indians, Bats -- Rabies -- Novel Fiction; Wendell Minor -- Cover Art Unbranded ISBN: 0393087832 EAN: 9780393087833 Smith, Martin Cruz Nightwing
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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