Race Rock [Signed]
by Peter Matthiessen
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1954. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1954. First Edition, stated. Signed by Peter Matthiessen at title page without inscription. Octavo. 306 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.50" price present. Green and black boards; yellow topstain.
Dust jacket rubbed with a few minor nicks to edges; faint remnants of tape or glue along edges. Boards with moderate shelfwear. Binding is sound. Date (March 1986) stamped along top edge of text block, but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of the author's first novel.
Dust jacket rubbed with a few minor nicks to edges; faint remnants of tape or glue along edges. Boards with moderate shelfwear. Binding is sound. Date (March 1986) stamped along top edge of text block, but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of the author's first novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27924
- Title
- Race Rock [Signed]
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...