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The Purple Decades: A Reader
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in purple cloth with blind embossed stylized initials on cover and gilt titling on spine. Near Fine/Very Good. A well-preserved pre-owned copy of this Wolfe reader which covers the 1960s and 1970s, the purple decades. Illustrated by the author, it includes material from The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff, etc.
This copy is near fine in a very good dust jacket. It includes a gift inscription from 1984 on the FFEP and the jacket is price-clipped.
This book will ship in a new Brodart cover.
This copy is near fine in a very good dust jacket. It includes a gift inscription from 1984 on the FFEP and the jacket is price-clipped.
This book will ship in a new Brodart cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Librariana Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 829
- Title
- The Purple Decades: A Reader
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in purple cloth with blind embossed stylized initials on cover and gilt titling on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- FINE BOOKS;
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- All items have Mylar protection on the dust jacket or are presented in sleeves whenever possible.
About the Seller
Librariana Fine Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Librariana Fine Books
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Our mission is to help individuals, families and organizations furnish their bookspaces in a way that reflects their personality and values.
Beginning with fine books, and extending to other "librariana" - art, antiques and collectibles that make a space a library. We also repair books, and consult with home owners, organizations and bookstore owners looking to make their bookspaces into purposeful sanctuaries.
Whether your bookspace is a corner shelf in a bedroom, or a grand corporate space for meetings and work, Librariana can help "improve your library".
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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