THE WOMEN WHO GOT AWAY
by Updike, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1998.. Large octavo. Quarter morocco and gilt lettered Fabriano over boards. Relief engraving by Barry Moser. Properly deaccessioned special collections duplicate with book plate and a small release stamps. First edition. From an edition of one hundred and fifty copies printed on Rives at the Firefly Press and signed by the author, this is one of fifteen copies specially bound. The loose, signed print of the engraving intended to accompany these special copies is not present.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT88581
- Title
- THE WOMEN WHO GOT AWAY
- Author
- Updike, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William B. Ewert
- Place of Publication
- Concord, NH
- Date Published
- 1998.
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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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...