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FLASH AND FILIGREE
by SOUTHERN, Terry:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch. 1958. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Stephen Russ illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. There is some toning and light spotting to the text block edge otherwise the contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is a little darkened at the extremities and with a chip to the bottom right of the lightly faded spine. Not price-clipped (12s 6d net to the front flap). The true first edition of the author's first novel. Inscribed in black ink on the front endpaper "To Suzy, with all best wishes, Terry S". The recipient is the model and actress Suzy Parker. As Richard Avedon's muse and the face of the Coco Chanel fashion brand she became one of the highest paid models of her generation. The Beatles wrote a song about her, although unreleased on an album it appeared in their 1970 Let It Be documentary, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Her first film role was in Kiss Them for Me (1957), playing the main interest of Cary Grant's character. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15774
- Title
- FLASH AND FILIGREE
- Author
- SOUTHERN, Terry:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Andre Deutsch. 1958
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About the Seller
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- First Edition
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