TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
by McMurtry, Larry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 410 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: '$9.95.' Light brown spine with black lettering. Minor shelf wear and on head and tail of spine and on edges of boards. Moderate browning to text block as usual. With an advance reader copy notice from Simon and Schuster. Shelved in case 6. 'Terms of Endearment' was adapted into a multiple Ocar-winning film in 1983. 1368316. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurty is the story of Aurora Greenway, a widowed woman who is shrewd and ferocious, and her daughter Emma, an equally fiesty and courageous woman. This is the story of their relationship, one full of tension and disagreement, as well as the relationships with the people around them as they both learn to love.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1368316
- Title
- TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
- Author
- McMurtry, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.