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THE WEB AND THE ROCK.
by Wolfe, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair condition only in dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe&quo/dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe" on front endpapers,
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1939.. Hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only in dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe" on front endpapers, shelfwear to bottom edges of boards) in a fair dust jacket (dampstaining at rear fold with bleeding from blue cloth, price-clipped, rubbing and wear to all edges and folds, tape at top of dj spine). . First printing (stated first edition with E-O code) The first of two posthumous novels by Wolfe, delivered to his publisher shortly before his death - the story of a writer in New York City. In his prefatory note, Wolfe calls it a novel "about one man's discovery of life and the world. . . being young, and in love, and in the city are only part of the whole adventure of apprenticeship and discovery." 695 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84351
- Title
- THE WEB AND THE ROCK.
- Author
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair condition only in dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe&quo
- Jacket Condition
- dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe" on front endpapers,
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1939.
- Keywords
- new york city setting,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
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- Fair
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