God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or Pearls Before Swine
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. BCE (Book Club Edition) . Hardcover. Very Good/VG- (Very Good Minus). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Early book club edition c. 1969. Turquoise blue cloth with gilt and black lettering. Trace wear and slightly bumped spine ends. Trace soil to text block. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has light edgewear and rubbing; a few small waterspots to spine panel; a few tiny tears; flaps not clipped. No sunning. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 217 pp.
Synopsis
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine is a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and published in 1965. The plot focuses on Eliot Rosewater, the primary trustee of the philanthropic Rosewater Foundation whom one of the family lawyers, Norman Mushari, is attempting to have declared insane to enable a more distant relative, Fred Rosewater, an insurance salesman from Rhode Island, to gain control.
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- Seller
- Albion Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 001830
- Title
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or Pearls Before Swine
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BCE (Book Club Edition)
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- 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...
- Book Club Edition
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- Cloth
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- 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
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- Text Block
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