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Shepherds of the Night
by Amado, Jorge; Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet De Onis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Very Good (in mylar)
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, markings, and front card pocket. Tape stains to top and bottom edges of ffep and bfep and to dust jacket flaps, else textblock is clean and tight; Library stamped bottom page edges. Tape stains to cloth on front and back to top and bottom edges, lightly bumped at the head and foot of spine and to the corners. Unclipped dust jacket, creasing to the corners and the head and foot of spine, usual shelf wear. 364pp., including glossary.. First American Edition. Cloth. Good+/Very Good (in mylar). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.
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Details
- Seller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SB13392
- Title
- Shepherds of the Night
- Author
- Amado, Jorge; Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet De Onis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Fiction, Brazilian Author, Brazilian Literature,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- FFEP
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- Shelf Wear
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- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
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