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Darkness Visible
by Golding, William (SIGNED)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571114547
- ISBN 13
- 9780571114542
- Seller
-
Lyndhurst, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London & Boston: Faber & Faber, Limited, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8" X 5 1/4. Russell Drysdale (DJ). A chilling mystery . . . 265 pp. Maroon cloth covered boards have as-new gilt text on spine. Spine ends are rubbed, evidence of moisture along bottom inch of the book. Book is not musty. Ding on fore edge that impacted on both boards and text block. Price clipped DJ has evidence of same moisture occurence as book. Rear panel is blank. Book is from the collection of the Toronto author/poet, Greg Gatenby as evidenced by his signature and the date of the book's acquisition ffep. Golding himself, flatsigned in black sharpie mid title page. SIGNED by AUTHOR. Bookseller's Inventory # 122943.
Synopsis
Darkness Visible by William Golding is a bleak tale of Matty and the people who cross his path. Matty was terribly burned in the London Blitz, and has to endure taunting for his horrible scars for the rest of his life. He finds two girls, twins, who are also lost children at heart.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lower Beverley Better Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002943
- Title
- Darkness Visible
- Author
- Golding, William (SIGNED)
- Illustrator
- Russell Drysdale (DJ)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571114547
- ISBN 13
- 9780571114542
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London & Boston
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8" X 5 1/4
Terms of Sale
Lower Beverley Better Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Lower Beverley Better Books
Biblio member since 2014
Lyndhurst, Ontario
About Lower Beverley Better Books
An online bookstore that just grew from a combination of a love of books, a desire to save them from landfill and an inability to bypass yard sales. A considerable percentage of my inventory is signed editions. I also take pride in my Canadiana catalogue.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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