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The Sand Pebbles
by McKenna, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition (stated), First Issue with correct date code of I-M (September 1962) on copyright page. (Reprints also state "First Edition.") Hardcover. Octavo. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. 597 pp, plus author bio. Near Fine / Good. Full contemporary publisher's red cloth over boards with publisher colophon stamped in gilt at lower right of front board. Flat spine with title and particulars stamped in gilt. Leading edge of textblock untrimmed. Cartographic front and rear endpapers showing China South. Inked signature of previous owner, author Joe Hensley, at lower right corner of front free endpaper. Pictorial dustjacket with front panel showing boat on river flying American flag and Chinese figure with rifle in foreground. Sunburst announcement, "1963 Harper Prize Novel," on the front panel. Black-and-white author photo and bio on rear panel. No BOMC selection indication on dustjacket flap. Binding solid. Tips sharp with very slight wear. Text block square with edges slightly toned. Pages clean and unmarked. Dustjacket edgeworn, creased, and torn, with some material loss at head and tail of spine. Tears now expertly repaired on inner side with archival mending tape. Front flap missing. Now in removeable archival protective cover. McKenna's first book and only novel, completed in 1962, a decade after his retirement from the Navy. It was serialized in "The Saturday Evening Post" before being published by Harper & Row and later adapted for the Robert Wise film starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, and Richard Crenna.
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Details
- Seller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0000101
- Title
- The Sand Pebbles
- Author
- McKenna, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Full contemporary publisher's red cloth over board
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Issue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 597
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Film, Movies, China
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Text Block
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- Tail
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Copyright page
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- BOMC
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