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Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age
by Matthiessen, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking, 1962. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Book Club Edition: Uncorrected First Edition sold to a book club and identified as such only on the bottom of the contents page; second set of photos in this edition is placed after page 160; map endpaper in front with a Rockefeller illustration endpaper in rear. INSCRIBED by Matthiessen on the 'Also by' page. 8vo, black cloth, black dj; vg (shelfworn; spine ends bumped and crimped; corners bumped; front corners worn to boards; tear to cloth on very top edge of rear board; soiling to top edge; edges and pages toned; slight water stain, very thin, to center photos and pages on bottom right corner) in good+ dj (price-clipped; toned; edges chipped, torn, and worn; pinhole to spine and two pinholes to rear panel; two deep scrapes to spine; edges of spine worn; tear to side edge of front flap); 256pp.
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- Seller
- Page 1 Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 4564
- Title
- Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1962
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- Natural History;
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- 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....
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