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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 339pp. Octavo [22cm] Ivory cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on spine. Decorative gilt on front board. Light bumping to spine. Some chipping and tearing to head of spine of dust jacket. A collection of essays on the metropolitan New York social life in the height of the 60's.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65612
- Title
- The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- narrative journalism; non-fiction; socialites; New York
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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