Buy this book on-line Hersey, John : The Walnut DoorFranklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1977
227pp. Full brown leather binding with raised bands and gold & red decoration. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers and silk page marker. Illustrated by Allan Mardon. Notes from the Editors booklet laid in. Printed for members of the First Edition Society, 8vo, Fine with no DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hersey, John : The Walnut Door. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HERSEY,JOHN**: : THE WALNUT DOORUSA.NY,BORZOI/KNOPF,1977. ISBN 0394417429.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour
pictorial painting [Rooms by the Sea by Edward Hopper] part-illustrated upper wrap with black lettering,author's b/w portrait hotographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - two tiny nicks/closed tears to top edges,one each to front+rear,
couple of tiny,tiny nicks to head of spine/backstrip - top two corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.
Front,inner flap of dw/dj has a small,
diagonal,vertical crease,rear inner flap has similar creasing - one to top corner and two to bottom corner - else unaffected.Top edge coloured turquoise and
clean,fore-edges untrimmed and bright and clean also; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,
clean,publisher's original plain pale beige/off-white cloth bds with auhtor's initials blind-stamped to upper bd,and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate unmarked,
plain white eps.8vo,5-235pp [paginated] includes 36 chapters' plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,author's lready published book list,half-title+title pages,dedication,2pp
last chapter (Chapter 37),2pp blanks,notes
on author+type used,and 2pp blanks at rear.
Writing at the height of his powers,John Hersey has created a taut,dazzling novel of suspense and revelation-in which we watch,mesmerized,the fateful convergence of two lives.
A young woman,having fled from her suddenly unbearable "college kid" self - and from the place,even the lover,that were part of it - comes alone to a strange
city,anxiously waiting for something new and important to begin.
A man - breezy,ponytailed,beautiful - stranded by the passing of the sixties whose excitements had nurtured and consumed him,now lavishes his whole self on loving craftsmanship,on the construction of simple,perfect wooden doors,on the mystery of locks,and on the artful offering of security (his locks and doors) to women who are alone. . . . The meeting of the two,and their love affair-its choreography masterminded by one,unsuspected by the other - are hypnotically told in a novel that illumines the fearful and the fear-makers in our decade.A novel from the Pulitzer Prze winning author,in exceptional condition.
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