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A Compass Error - FIRST PRINTING
by Sybille Bedford
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
-
Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins London, 1968 Clean and tight first printing of this fine novel, in a complete and now protected jacket. Binding firm, and clean, with no bumped corners and gilt titling still fresh. Jacket slightly worn but complete, and in a mylar sleeve. Slight edge foxing to the text block. No former owner names. The publisher used inferior quality paper so there is some inevitable foxing, which is common to the first edition of this book. This is, nevertheless, a great collectable copy of a fine novel. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
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- Bookseller
- the booksniffer
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-2945138895
- Title
- A Compass Error - FIRST PRINTING
- Author
- Sybille Bedford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Publisher
- Collins London
- Date Published
- 1968
Terms of Sale
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All goods returnable without question
About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2005
Lewes, East Sussex
About the booksniffer
Modern First Editions, signed where possible, adult and young adult, illustrated books, Antiquarian. And, apart from the book selling, I am a writer and painter. Look at my stuff online at peterkettle.com and buy my prize winning novel, The Driftwood Giraffe on kindle.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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