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The Land Breakers (Book Club Edition - SIGNED)
de Ehle, John
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Bien/Fair
- Librería
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 403 pages. Hardcover in a brown and black dust jacket. Book Club Edition, as noted on the inside of the jacket's front turn-in. There is considerable wear to the dust jacket, which has several small tears along the edges and one large chip at the bottom front left corner as well as at the foot of the spine. There is some foxing to the outer edge of the text block as well as to the flyleaves and end papers. The text is otherwise clean and sound. SIGNED by John Ehle on the title page. Prior owner's signature (Lindley S. Butler) on the front flyleaf.
Sinopsis
John Ehle grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, where his seventeen books are set. His novels The Winter People and The Journey of August King have been adapted as films. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Hawaii for many years before immigrating to Toronto in 1982. She is the author of four novels, Daughters of Captain Cook , The Paper Wife , and Mere , which she wrote with her screenwriter daughter, Esta, and, most recently, The Purchase (Pantheon), for which she received the Governor General’s Award in Canada. Her most recent non-fiction work is Who Named the Knife , a memoir of crime and punishment. A Dark Place in the Jungle , was short-listed for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. Spalding is an editor of Brick , A Journal of Reviews and has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community.
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- Librería
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 050011
- Título
- The Land Breakers (Book Club Edition - SIGNED)
- Autor
- Ehle, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1964
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 1.50 libras
- Palabras clave
- 1964; John Ehle; Novel; Literature; Fiction; North Carolina Literature; North Carolina; Signed; Lindley S. Butler.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies; North Carolina Literature;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
Sobre Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
