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Through the Ivory Gate
by Dove, Rita
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- first
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York (1992): Pantheon Books. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Signed by the author. The author became one of the youngest writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and only the second African-American to do so. This is the author's first novel. A story set just after the Vietnam era and Virginia King. An unforgettable portrait of a period in American life and offers in Virginia King one of the most endearing heroines to emerge in contemporary fiction. 278pp., bound in black paper covered boards stamped in gilt, backed in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine bright copy in equally fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021767
- Title
- Through the Ivory Gate
- Author
- Dove, Rita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York (1992)
- Keywords
- Signed First Edition 1st Dust Jacket PuIitzer Prize Winner
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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