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Loon Lake
by E.L. Doctorow
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039450691X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394506913
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 1980 Random House, New York. 1980. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a Random House overstock stamp on the textblock bottom. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($11.95). Brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Brown endpapers. 258 pp 8vo. The hero of this dazzling novel is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes that heads to Loon Lake and the estate of a wealthy man. In it are well-dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a beautiful girl holding up a white dress before her naked form. Joe will follow the track to the estate at Loon Lake, where he finds the girl along with a tycoon, an aviatrix, a drunken poet, and a covey of gangsters. Here Joe’s fate will play out in this powerful story of ambition, aggression, and identity. A magical view of American life and passions from the First World War to the Second. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013774
- Title
- Loon Lake
- Author
- E.L. Doctorow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039450691X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394506913
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- fiction, novel, Loon Lake, Adirondack Mountains, Great Depression, suspense fiction, romance fiction,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
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