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Martha Peake - a Novel of the Revolution
by Patrick McGrath
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0670891282
- ISBN 13
- 9780670891283
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Viking, 2000. First edition, first printing, with red covers and gilt, 340pp with black endpapers. Apart from tiniest dint to fore edges and lightly bumped head and fooot of spine, covers are VG. Top page edges dusty. Unclipped DJ has just lightest shelfwear and sunned spine. But overall a VG copy. Ref:125022. First Edition. Cloth. VG/VG. 15.5cmx24cm.
Synopsis
Patrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital, where for many years his father was medical superintendent. He is the author of Blood and Water and Other Tales , The Grotesque , Spider , and Dr. Haggard's Disease , and he was the co-editor, with Bradford Morrow, of The New York Gothic . He lives in New York City and London, and is married to actress Maria Aitken.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005022
- Title
- Martha Peake - a Novel of the Revolution
- Author
- Patrick McGrath
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670891282
- ISBN 13
- 9780670891283
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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- Edges
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- VG
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- VG/VG
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- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Spine
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