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A Summer Place
by Sloan Wilson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Ridge Press, by Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good-. 277 pp. Text clean, ivory, unmarked with red top edge and deckled outer edge. No prior owner attribution. A book club edition. Dust jacket has shelfwear along front outer edge and small chips at head and tail of spine. This novel is about how marriages are made and the price people pay for changing their minds about love. It was somewhat risque in its day, but doesn't compare with today's standards.
Synopsis
A Summer Place is the title of a 1958 novel by author Sloan Wilson, who also wrote The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The story examines the adult lives of two onetime teen lovers, Ken and Sylvia, who were from different social strata (he was self-supporting, working as a lifeguard at a Maine island resort, while her family stayed as guests of the owners, one summer between years at college), and went on to marry different people – entirely the wrong people, it turned out.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 100478
- Title
- A Summer Place
- Author
- Sloan Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Grey cloth boards with stamped red sun, taupe half-spine with red title and author on spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ridge Press, by Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 277
- Size
- 5 3/4 X 8 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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