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The Lords of Discipline
by Conroy, Pat
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. .An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with minor rubbing to the lower edges of the boards. In a very near fine, unclipped, first state dust jacket with a tiny chip to the upper edge of the spine area and a 1/8 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front flap and a small spot of soiling to the front panel over the gutter. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. 499 pages of text. A very neat, clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
Synopsis
Pat Conroy is the bestselling author of T he Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, and My Losing Season . He lives in Fripp Island, South Carolina. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32180
- Title
- The Lords of Discipline
- Author
- Conroy, Pat
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1980
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About the Seller
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- First State
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- Inscribed
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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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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