Hardcover; fading and shelf wear to exterior; note written inside front cov er; slight wrinkling to front endpaper and following few pages; fade spots to page edges; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows scuffing, light soiling, and shelf wear, with price clipped.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The chance discovery of a ship buried underground for millions of years transforms the inhabitants of a New England town into one evil, homicidal entity. First edition, second state, with a full 1 through 10 number line but without the "permissions to come" statement printed beneath as a true first printing would have. This is a clean copy with no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Not an ex-library copy. Spine is generally tight and crisp, though there is a crack in the gutter of the title page. Corners are square, and the boards are clean, flat and true with some minor wear to the edges and foreedges and some bumping to the lower spine. The pages are heavily browned with some light soiling/foxing to the textblock edges and a mark on the bottom edge (this does not appear to be a remainder mark). A section of the textblock stands out as not being as heavily browned as the rest of the pages. There is a slight crease along the spine, and the gold gilt lettering on the spine is slightly worn. There is no dust jacket. This collectible, very good, first edition/second printing copy is protected with an archival mylar cover. Satisfaction guaranteed!
Spine lower edge bumped otherwise fine. True first printing of the trade edition with "Permissions to Come" line at the bottom of the copyright information after the number line 1-10. It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house. Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil. A logger's beer can, she thinks at first, but "the metal was as solid as mother-rock." Location DD.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. A first edition with the copyright page listing the full number sequence of 1-10 present. Pages are clean, tight and bright. The dust-jacket's original price is still intact. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1987.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 20 X 20 X 20 inches; 558 pages; Dust scuffing to edge of pages. Light wear on dust jacket. - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. .
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gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.