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The Ampersand Papers
by Innes, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0575025212
- ISBN 13
- 9780575025219
- Seller
-
Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz,. Hardback. 192pp. First edition. Crime fiction. Red boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust jacket is sunned to spine and has a little rubbing and dust marks to very edges and a short closed tear to top edge. Faint foxing to endpapers. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1978.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24034
- Title
- The Ampersand Papers
- Author
- Innes, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575025212
- ISBN 13
- 9780575025219
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Crime fiction,Detective fiction,Michael Innes,First edition novels,, First edition crime,
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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