pages clean, tight binding, gilt on cover and spine, dj price clipeed, previous owners signature on front end paper DATE PUBLISHED: 1985 EDITION: FIRST ED 295
1985. Nice Firm Clean copy! The dust jacket has some wear along the top and bottom edges and a few rips along the top spine edge. The front dust jacket flap states a price of $16.95. The copyright page states 'First trade edition'. 184 pages. 0416
First trade edition stated. A very good copy with a small spot on cover in a very good DJ with some light edgewear, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #25
First Edition Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket. Good to Very Good with a square and tight binding and clean contents. Covers show light rubbing and bumping and slight fading at spine ends. Jacket shows edge wear and small pieces missing at spine bottom. I have enclosed the Jacket in a removable Mylar sleeve to protect it from further wear.
First edition/first printing. Solid square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket has no rips or creases. Not a remainder or book club edition.
First Trade edition. DJ in mylar cover. First ten or so pages have a red cherry stain less than a size of quarter. Last few pages have similar stains. Otherwise a fine copy with a black cloth quarter binding and grey boards. Turquoise end papers. No remainder marks and DJ is not price clipped. Square and tight.
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Family owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. First Book Club edition (Delacorte Press, 1985) in Near Fine condition. Dust jacket Near Fine, with slight wear on one edge but generally crisp and nice. Now protected in archival mylar. Binding tight. No marks in text. Very nice copy overall. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
Sturdy book, black cloth spine, gray boards, bright silver facsimile signature with asterik at bottom front right, silver lettering bright on spine, blue color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 295 pages. DJ glossy with blue sky illustrated on most of front, spine and back, darker blue of water with a sail ship on back, two albatrosses on front left, an iguana on back, with darker black along bottom front, spine and back. DJ has very tiny crease at bottom front edge near tip, very tiny light pin dents at front left. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.
Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent bookstores. Hard cover with DJ. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to boards and DJ, some wear to edges of DJ. Clean, tight binding. First edition. First printing. Full number line and/or stated 1st edition.
1st edition. Book is like new and is issued in black and grey cloth. 295 pages. Dust jacket is gorgeous and not price clipped, $16.95. There is a teeny tiny mark on the spine and a tiny fold on the rear panel, else FINE. Now in Mylar. Selling quality books for 35 years.
First trade edition, stated. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends lightly bumped; foxing to the top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $16.95); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected.
Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 295 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscription inside cover with owner's stamp and initials on title page. Otherwise book is in near fine condition.
Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1985. "First Trade Edition" stated, signifying the first (1st) printing, per publisher's stated policy. Near Fine+ in a Fine- Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to gray boards, the rear board of which has a dampstain, with bright silver design to the front board, bright silver title, etc., to spine, unmarked bright blue endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright and would be flawless but for a 3/8" tear to the top front panel, now discreetly closed from behind with archival (pH neutral) materials. The original price ($16.95) is intact on the front flap. See photos. 295 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 3/8". A satirical novel told from the point of view of a long dead ghost observing the evolution of humanity from the present for a million years after economic collapse, war and disease wipe out all but a few who made it to the Galapagos islands. ISBN 10: 0385294166 / ISBN 13: 9780385294164
NEW YORK NY: DELACORTE PRESS. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1985. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .
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