Light wear to the dust jacket. Small coffee stain to the side edge and the bottom edge.Some soiling to the top edge.Clean text that appears to be unread.
First edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed papercovered boards. Cloth a bit soiled and rubbed with light foxing on the page edges, very good in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear, and modest rubbing on the rear panel.
(1st edition, 1st printing) Sturdy, thinner book, green cloth spine, black boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, light brown color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 215 crisp pages. DJ beneath mylar, glossy black spine and borders front nd back, a light brown background to front with color-illustration of 17th Century woman in blue gown, small photo of author on light brown center back with praise from Robert Coover. DJ has very slight wear to bottom front tip, micronick at top front edge. DJ and book, both Fine.
Hardcover with dust jacket. Pictorial DJ has mild edge wear at the crown and foot of the spine, but is generally crisp and clean. Book is bound in black paper over boards with green cloth and gold lettering down the spine. Covers are crisp and clean. Corners are slightly bumped. Binding is tight and secure. SIGNED by Hawkes on the title page. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. 215 pages. Harper & Row Publishers. No publication date on the title page. Copyright dated 1981 and 1982. Stated first Harper & Row edition. A good copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.
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