The Fly
by CHOPPING, RICHARD
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Secker & Warburg 1965. FIRST EDITION (EX-LIBRARY- LIBRARY LABEL TO FEP ONLY, OTHERWISE NO LIBRARY MARKINGS AT ALL), octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 291pp, VG (light scuffing to spine & boards, black ink C to spine, spine sl cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm numerals in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, 1 cm loss to lower spine extrem, price clipped, heavy tanning to spine, moderate tanning & light foxing to covers, in protective removable clear plastic cover)
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Details
- Seller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 294582
- Title
- The Fly
- Author
- CHOPPING, RICHARD
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg 1965
- Keywords
- modern first edition novels literature fiction Richard Chopping
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...