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POWERS OF DARKNESS
by Aickman, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fair
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Collins , 1966. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 251pp. This is a true first UK edition, first printing (first impression) with 1966 and no statement of reprint on the copyright page. A very good clean copy, dusting to the top of the text block, light toning to the pages, in fair dust jacket that is not price clipped (18s - net) with chips/loss to the lower spine, corners, light staining to the rear panel, fade to the spine. An very decent copy of a scare book.
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013164
- Title
- POWERS OF DARKNESS
- Author
- Aickman, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- POWERS OF DARKNESS, FIRST EDITION,AICKMAN, ROBERT
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- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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