Lying in the Sun and Other Stories
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Moderate foxing to top page edges and endpapers. Some spots of foxing to fore and lower page edges. Some spots of foxing to margins of leaves throughout. Quite heavy foxing to dust wrapper. No tears in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 206 pages. Short stories. "Sheer, sheer, the white cliff rising, straight up from the sea, so far that the riding waves were nothing but ripples on a huge calm." - opening sentence of the first story, "Samphire". ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6642
- Title
- Lying in the Sun and Other Stories
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
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.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...