New York: Horizon Press, 1981. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 176 pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket, light soiling, edges lightly worn with chipping and a close tear to lower cover flap seam top. Jacket photograph by Sheila Yurman. Front free endpaper inscription to dancer and choreographer, 'For Julie Finch with a great heart Donald Drunkspeare [Newlove]' as a birthday gift. Finch was one of the many activists, and artists, that opposed Robert Moses' crosstown elevated expressway that would have then disrupted many active SoHo communities in the late 1960s, possibly further.

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Bookseller: Better Read Than Dead (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2098
Title: Those Drinking Days
Author: Donald Newlove
Illustrator: Jacket photograph by Sheila Yurman
Format/Binding: Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 176 pp
Book Condition: Used - Near fine book; very good dust jacket, light soiling, edges lightly worn with chipping and a close tear to lower cover flap seam
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0818002506
ISBN 13: 9780818002502
Publisher: Horizon Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1981
Keywords: Donald Newlove, Those Drinking Days

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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...
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...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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....