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Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork
by Richard Brautigan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671222635
- ISBN 13
- 9780671222635
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, coffee brown. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Fine book even considering very mild bumps to top corners and a small, faint stain to the lower edge of the text block. Not signed, but perhaps the ultimate association copy for this volume. // Wood River Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1632122202041
- Title
- Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork
- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671222635
- ISBN 13
- 9780671222635
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- 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....
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