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Night Song [FIRST EDITION]
by WILLIAMS, John A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar , Straus and Cuhady, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo. Cloth spine over boards. Dust jacket.
Shelf wear to jacket, with some sunning to spine and a few small spots of discoloration. 1/2" closed tear to bottom edge of front jacket cover and several small chips to header and footer of jacket spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.
This is a stated first printing of Williams' second novel, which was based on jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker and adapted into a 1967 Dick Gregory film.
Shelf wear to jacket, with some sunning to spine and a few small spots of discoloration. 1/2" closed tear to bottom edge of front jacket cover and several small chips to header and footer of jacket spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.
This is a stated first printing of Williams' second novel, which was based on jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker and adapted into a 1967 Dick Gregory film.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3926
- Title
- Night Song [FIRST EDITION]
- Author
- WILLIAMS, John A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar , Straus and Cuhady
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
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About the Seller
Uncharted Books
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Chicago, Illinois
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...