The Halting Place
by Henderson, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Christchurch: Caxton Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Fading to dust-jacket spine. 1/2" tear at head of rear panel of dust-jacket. Moderate rubbing to corners of dust wrapper. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 51, [5 (blank)] pages. Green and brown papered boards. "Lovely in limbs laid long and the bone- / Wide sockets alive with sky, with sea; / No stranger walks among buttress, snow peak / And cave in this blue iron spine but will turn." - from the poem "Moore Exhibition". .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7024
- Title
- The Halting Place
- Author
- Henderson, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Caxton Press
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....