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They Call Me Carpenter A Tale of the Second Coming
by Sinclair, Upton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0855946199
- ISBN 13
- 9780855946197
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Bath, UK: Cedric Chivers Ltd.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. 0855946199 . Red cloth boards show some shelf wear, tape residue mark on front board. School library stamp on top page edges, inside front board and on title page. ; A tight solid book. ; Ex-Library; Portway Reprints; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 230 pages; "The story takes place in the fictional locale Western City. It begins with a man named Billy who is attacked by a mob outside a theater after watching a German film. Billy then stumbles into a church and is visited by Carpenter, that is Jesus, who walks out of a stained glass window. Carpenter is shocked and appalled by upper-class culture. The story then roughly follows the biblical account of the Ministry of Jesus." (Wikipedia) .
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- Seller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18417
- Title
- They Call Me Carpenter A Tale of the Second Coming
- Author
- Sinclair, Upton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0855946199
- ISBN 13
- 9780855946197
- Publisher
- Cedric Chivers Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Bath, UK
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- 0855946199
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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