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Lady
by Tryon, Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition, signed by Tryon on title page. Octavo, 341 pp. Black cloth with gilt spine imprinting, pictorial jacket. Handsome Near Fine copy, with a spot of soiling to bottom page edges and a nick at the top of two pages, in a near fine jacket which has been price-clipped. Sharp. A collector's copy of former-actor Tom Tryon's third novel (after The Other and Harvest Home), Lady is another tale told in Tryon's unique neo-gothic tone - this time, the story of a woman - "the lady of Pequot Landing, who reigns lightly over the town from the time of her young widowhood just after the First World War, through the twenties, through the Bust and the dreaded New Deal and the Great Hurricane of '38 and Pearl Harbor." But, of course, there is an unimaginable secret behind Lady... L19n
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000278
- Title
- Lady
- Author
- Tryon, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 341
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Tom Tryon, Signed, gothic, Horror General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction; Fantasy and Horror;
Terms of Sale
Singularity Rare & Fine
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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