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The child buyer : a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child

Title: The child buyer : a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child / by John Hersey.
Author: Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
Publication: New York : Knopf, 1960

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	D-12 8266	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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Description

257, [5] p.; 22 cm.

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Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Linotype Electra.
Dust jackets (Binding).
Booksellers' labels (Provenance).
American fiction.

Note

"The book was composed, printed, and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tenn. Paper manufactured by S.D. Warren Co., Boston."--p. [261].
Typography by Vincent Torre.
Binding design by Charles E. Skaggs; jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Set in Linotype Electra.
Bound in black cloth over boards with gold titling on spine and gold stamping on front cover.

Call Number

D-12 8266

LCCN

60013850 /L/r933

OCLC

284929

Author

Hersey, John, 1914-1993.

Title

The child buyer : a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child / by John Hersey.

Imprint

New York : Knopf, 1960 (Kingsport, Tenn. : Kingsport Press).

Edition

1st ed.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy contains bookseller's label: "The Holliday Bookshop, 119 East 54th St., New York 22 N.Y."--rear paste-down endpaper.

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Torre, Vincent. Typographer

Skaggs, Charles E., 1917- binding designer.

Research Call Number

D-12 8266

Berg Coll Hersey, J C45 1960

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