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Roger's Version
by UPDIKE, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 8vo. Grey cloth, lettered in gilt and silver, blind-stamped Borzoi device to bottom board. Fore-edge untrimmed. Pushing to spine ends, fine bands of sunning to board edges, ghost of Sellotape to ffep, else, clean and bright. In Sara Eisenman's original dust jacket: sunned, light creasing to spine ends. Very good/ very good.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1769
- Title
- Roger's Version
- Author
- UPDIKE, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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