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Six Men
by COOKE, ALISTAIR
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394484347
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484341
- Seller
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back A look at six transatlantic figures-three English and three Americans, each of whom has great significance for our time. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Illustrations of each of the six men. Ivory quarter cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering, with navy cloth over boards; clean and unmarked, lightly sunned along upper edge, else Fine. Tight, solid and square. Rough cut on fore edge and bottom edge. Interior is Fine. Clean jacket is edgeworn along upper front edge, with chipping and small tears. Charles Chaplin, H.L.Mencken, Humphrey Bogart, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and Edward VIII. 205 pages. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1977.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014329
- Title
- Six Men
- Author
- COOKE, ALISTAIR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394484347
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484341
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY-20TH CENTURY; FAME; CHARLES CHAPLIN; EDWARD VIII; H.L.MENCKEN; ADLAI STEVENSON; BERTRAND RUSSELL;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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