Christ in Concrete
by Di Donato, Pietro
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Bobbs-Merrill, 1939. Very Good. Di Donato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939. 311pp. 8vo. Black cloth with red top edge. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges, scuffs on the front cover. Pages are slightly yellowed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing, bumped and slightly chipped edges, and faint soiling. Price clipped. Inscribed to previous owner by the author on the front pastedown. Laid in are a few newspaper clippings about the author.
Synopsis
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
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- Bookseller
- Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RDIDCHR00tpm
- Title
- Christ in Concrete
- Author
- Di Donato, Pietro
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Date Published
- 1939
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...