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Elephant Bangs Train: Available Copies
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Seller: Gil's Book Loft (Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $5.75
TOTAL Cost: $15.75
Measures about 8.5" x 5.5". Very attractive, frameable stiff card, printed in black on cream stock. Multiples available. B/w drawing. fine, single sheet mini-poster, ad for Dutch edition of Kotzwinkle's book 1 p.
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Elephant Bangs Train. by William Kotzwinkle
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780571097791
Publisher: Pantheon Books a Division of Random House (1971)
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $15.25
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $20.65
Ex Library. VG cream cloth boards with blue lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for library markings on two pages and scotch tape on paste downs and stamp on top page edge. VG dust jacket not price clipped; light rubbing along edges; scotch tape on back. 148pp. First printing. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Elephant Bangs Train by Kotzwinkle, William
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394460475
Publisher: Pantheon, N. Y. (1971)
Seller: Selected Used Books (Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $17.00
Shipping: $4.75
TOTAL Cost: $21.75
Author's 1st adult title & 2nd book, a short story collection. Top of page block is slightly age toned with a closed 1/2" tear to top of rear DJ - o/wise clean, tight, complete, no writing, not price clipped. 148 pp. Presents as carefully read. Mylar protected.Bookseller Invt. # C00100122F.
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Seller: Friends of the Multnomah County Library (Portland, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $18.00
Shipping: $4.50
TOTAL Cost: $22.50
Dust jacket has shelfwear and is slightly yellowed at top; sticker residue on inner front flap and back flap creased; remnant of pencil pricing on top right corner of ffep; book very slightly warped; light stain to top edge; otherwise clean and sound. Proceeds from this sale benefit the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon. This is not an ex-library book.
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Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $17.50
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $22.90
VG cream boards with blue lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked. VG dust jacket not price clipped; light rubbing along edges. 148pp. Index. White DJ cover. Remainder mark and light foxing on page edge. First printing. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Equinox Books by Avon (1974)
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $19.00
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $24.40
Inscribed by Author. Good stiff glossy paper wraps; edges smooth; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked except for author's inscription on first page "For John Best Wishes William Kotzwinkle". 148 pp. 3rd printing. Light tidelines on covers, side page edge and first four front and back end papers. Foxing top page edge. Pages slightly browning from age. Remainder mark bottom page edge. Abrasion on cover. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Equinox Books by Avon (1974)
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $20.25
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $25.65
Inscribed by Author. Good stiff glossy paper wraps; edges smooth; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked except for author's inscription on first page "For Linda William Kotzwinkle". No reader's crease. 148 pp. 3rd printing. Light tidelines on covers, side page edge and end papers. Foxing top page edge. Pages slightly browning from age. Remainder mark bottom page edge. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Equinox Books by Avon (1974)
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $21.00
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $26.40
Very good stiff glossy paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked. 2nd printing. 148pp. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $27.46
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $27.46
Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.26
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Equinox Books by Avon (1974)
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $23.00
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $28.40
Very good stiff glossy paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked. 4th printing. 148pp. Pages lightly browning from age. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Equinox Books by Avon (1974)
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles (Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $28.50
Shipping: $5.40
TOTAL Cost: $33.90
Signed by Author. Very good stiff glossy paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked except for author's signature on 1/2 title page. 148pp. Foxing top page edge. 2nd printing. Scuff mark on front cover. Light tide lines on 1st 2 pages; foxing top page edge. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Avon Equinox (1974)
Seller: et cetera Salt Spring Book & Stationery (salt spring island, BC, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $14.31
Shipping: $20.95
TOTAL Cost: $35.26
2nd printing of this edition - fep missing, spine creases, rubbing to spine and corners - free of all markings - clean and clear 148 pg
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Elephant Bangs Train by Kotzwinkle, William
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394460475
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York (1971)
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB (North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $40.00
Shipping: $5.75
TOTAL Cost: $45.75
DJ some rubbing to front/rear panels, light edgewear along foot of spine, orange lettering on spine faded to yellow. Overall a tight solid sound copy with DJ protected in mylar. ; 8vo, light gray illustrated cloth, unclipped DJ, 148pp. Includes review slip and photo of Author laid in.
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Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC (Lexington, SC, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $43.00
Shipping: $5.25
TOTAL Cost: $48.25
This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780571097791
Publisher: Faber 1971 First Edition in the UK First Printing ? (1971)
Seller: Porcupine Books (Ilford, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $32.05
Shipping: $16.85
TOTAL Cost: $48.90
Faber 1971 First Edition in the UK First Printing ? Bruised at top and base of spine a touch of shelf-wear on lower board edges and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. '''. a remarkable series of short stories. His imaginative command of character and atmosphere is astonishing. a deprecating humour and sly, appealing humility. His world is peopled with legendary figures from all times and places. ''
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Elephant Bangs Train by William Kotzwinkle
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc., New York (1971)
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA (Bath, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $50.74
Shipping: $16.84
TOTAL Cost: $67.58
A bright first edition, second impression of the first printing of this short story anthology by William Kotzwinkle. A fantastic work by William Kotzwinkle, containing a collection of short stories which outline the author's incredible mind and imagination. A great read as an introduction to Kotzwinkle's style of writing. The first edition, first printing, second impression of this work.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.By American novelist and children's author William Kotzwinkle, best known for his novelDoctor Ratand for the novelisation of the famous screenplay forE.T. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, spine and boards only lightly bumped to head and tail and extremities. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear, lightly soiled to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine
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