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THE THANATOS SYNDROME
by Walker Percy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good plus
- ISBN 10
- 0374273545
- ISBN 13
- 9780374273545
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good plus. Signed by author on title page. No additional markings to pages. Binding is square and tight. Boards are overall clean, but slightly warped, with some wear to edges, spine ends and corners. Text block is lightly foxed. Dust jacket has some minor edgewear, covers are clean with light rubbing. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42999
- Title
- THE THANATOS SYNDROME
- Author
- Walker Percy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374273545
- ISBN 13
- 9780374273545
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Other, City and town life--Fiction, Psychiatrists--Fiction, Louisiana--Fiction
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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