The War Lover
by John Hersey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. VG/G. 1st/1st. The book is Very Good. Stated First Edition. Tightly bound and straight. Some soiling to toned top edges and staple perforations to upper FFEP. Otherwise, the book is clean with no writing, bookplate, and not a BC, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is Good. The $5.00 price is intact. There is wear, including small chips and tears to edges and creases of the dust jacket. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. The basis for the 1962 film starring Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2644
- Title
- The War Lover
- Author
- John Hersey
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
Biblio member since 2020
Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...