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Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener. First edition, first printing with a first issue dust jacket. Dust jacket is the variant with $3.00 price printed horizontally at base of front flap (no priority per Ahearn APG). The dust jacket illustrator's name is present vertically on the front panel. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1947. Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 8vo, 326 pp.The dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate creasing and chipping to the edges, spine and flap folds. A large chip is missing from the front panel, affecting the author's name. A large chip is missing from the top edge of the rear panel around to the front panel. Sunning to the panels and spine. First edition points as follows: "First Printing" is stated on the top of the copyright page. Printed by "THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS INC." is stated on the bottom of the copyright page. Book is bound in orange-beige cloth, with letters on spine stamped in blue and no design on the front. The book is in good plus to very good condition minus. The boards are well preserved with vibrant lettering on the spine. Gift inscription on front endpaper and previous owner's signature on front paste-down. The front board is cracked at the hinge at the title page, exposing the webbing underneath. Previous bookstore's sticker on the rear paste-down. The textblock is toned but clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. Inventory # (C12-4).
Synopsis
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of sequentially related short stories about World War II, written by James A. Michener in 1946. The stories were based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu). The skipper of PT-105 met Michener while stationed at the PT boat base on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
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- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004183
- Title
- Tales of the South Pacific
- Author
- James A. Michener
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- C12-4
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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....
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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