The shelf · Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
First edition
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
Norman Mailer
Random House, 1995. First edition, first printing.
$32One copy · this copy
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- Book
- Fine
- Jacket
- Near Fine
- Jacket note
- The dust jacket grades Near Fine.
- Our ref
- RCB-eafd99ec6598
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-eafd99ec6598 · 7 photographs of this copy
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Copyright page states "First Trade Edition"
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Scrambled Random House number line "24689753" (lowest digit 2, the 1 stripped per house practice)
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Jacket flap priced U.S.A. $30.00 / Canada $39.95
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ISBN 0-679-42535-7; LC# 95-067920
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Jacket rear flap imprint "Random House, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10022 / Printed in U.S.A. 5/95 / ©1995 Random House, Inc."
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Note: a separate signed first was privately printed by The Franklin Library; this is the trade issue
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Flaws, each one named
1
light edge/surface wear and faint creasing to jacket, right/fore edge of front panel
This copy
First edition
What a true first shows: Random House, New York, 1995, cloth in dust jacket (first trade edition)
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.