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A Secret History of Time to Come
by Macauley, Robie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394501667
- ISBN 13
- 9780394501666
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean hardcover stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean turquoise paper-covered boards with ivory cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Small remainder mark on top page edges near spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 303 pages. Clean illustrated jacket with wrap-around design (painting by Mark Hess) is unchipped, not price clipped, a couple of very short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A profound and frightening vision of a world that could exist after the collapse of our civilization, a world that is beginning to look to possible to me now. An absorbing tale of humanity locked into repeating its history, in a setting that is chillingly real. A fine and powerful book..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033759
- Title
- A Secret History of Time to Come
- Author
- Macauley, Robie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394501667
- ISBN 13
- 9780394501666
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, FICTION, ROBIE MACAULEY, FIRST EDITION, FUTURISTIC FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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...
- Remainder Mark
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
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