THE THIRD POLICEMAN
by O'Brien, Flann [pseud. of Brian O'Nolan]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Walker & Company, [1967].. Plum brown cloth-textured boards, lettered in gilt. Spine very slightly cocked, otherwise very good or better in pictorial dust jacket with very slight tanning and flaring at the edges and a couple of small nicks at the toe of the rear panel. First edition, US issue, of the author's posthumously published second masterpiece, printed and bound in the UK with adjusted prelims and a US jacket.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT85590
- Title
- THE THIRD POLICEMAN
- Author
- O'Brien, Flann [pseud. of Brian O'Nolan]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1967].
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About the Seller
William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
Glossary
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...