Reflections upon a Sinking Ship
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Brooktondale, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Author-signed first edition. Volume is bound in brown cloth spine, with stamped silver lettering, and gray cloth boards, with blind-stamped publisher's emblem. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Signature appears on title page. Dust jacket, with price of $5.95 on front flap, displays two chips at top edge of front cover, and very small chip at fore edge. Rear cover has photo of author. 255 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PB657
- Title
- Reflections upon a Sinking Ship
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little,Brown and Company
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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About the Seller
Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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Brooktondale, New York
About Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...