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Peeping Tom
by Jacobson, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701129085
- ISBN 13
- 9780701129088
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Brown coloured boards gilt coloured titles to the backstrip Illustrated dustwrapper with red, white and yellow coloured titles the front panel and backstrip. Black and white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. Quoting from the front fold over panel " ... this wickedly erotic, ferociously funny amalgam of the psychological thriller, the rule idyll and the literary novel of romance, Howard Jacobson finds parallels for the sexual obsessions of his hero in one of the most revered figures of the nineteenth-century novel. Softening of backstrip edges with bumping of the top book corners and rubbing of the lower book corners. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages Some creasing to the dustwrapper corners and rubbing of the panels. The laminate of the dustwrapper has 2 manufacturing faults, to the lower left-hand corner of the front panel and running the full length of the rear panel. The rear fold over panel shows a few foxing spots. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 266 pages. pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Australia; 1980s; Humour. ISBN: 0701129085. ISBN/EAN: 9780701129088. Inventory No: 0127941. . 9780701129088
Synopsis
Howard Jacobson is the author of four works of nonfiction and several novels, including The Finkler Question , which won the Man Booker Prize; The Mighty Walzer , which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing; and Who's Sorry Now? , which was long-listed for the Booker Prize. He has a weekly column for The Independent and regularly reviews and writes for The Guardian , The Times, and The Evening Standard . Jacobson has also done several specials for British television. He lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0127941
- Title
- Peeping Tom
- Author
- Jacobson, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701129085
- ISBN 13
- 9780701129088
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Fiction, humour, redback spiders, life Fiction; Australia; 1980s; Humour. Unbranded ISBN: 0701129085 EAN: 9780701129088 Jacobson, Howard Peeping Tom
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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