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The Portable Beat Reader
by Ann Charters (editor)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0670838853
- ISBN 13
- 9780670838851
- Seller
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Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Viking Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing ( "1" present in printing line). 8 x 5 1/4 inches. Bound in black boards with title information to spine in red. Flap is not price clipped. 642 pages with index of titles and authors. Book VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. With some light speckling to top of text block. Not marked and very clean and bright. Dust jacket AS NEW. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24022112
- Title
- The Portable Beat Reader
- Author
- Ann Charters (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670838853
- ISBN 13
- 9780670838851
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; History; Beats;
Terms of Sale
Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
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About the Seller
Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
Biblio member since 2015
Beaverton, Oregon
About Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
We owned and operated The Looking Glass Bookstore in downtown Portland, Oregon for thirty years. Our citations on this site are the accumulation of first editions, small press, galleys, letter press, comics and comix, and other interesting books and ephemera that we set aside over those years. Almost everything we saved is new, added to boxes that were sealed and kept until now.
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- Bumps
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- Fine
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- Text Block
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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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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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