A Quiet Life [Signed]
by Bainbridge, Beryl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0715609270
- ISBN 13
- 9780715609279
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gerald Duckworth & Co, Ltd.. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardback. 0715609270 . [First edition, Signed by Beryl Bainbridge on the front free endpaper with a dedication to Edward Pearson, although the dedication is addressed simply to 'Edward'] Dust jacket stiff and clean, very lighty rubbed and scratched from shelving, faint 2cm discolouration at rear top edge, unclipped; Boards firm and clean, corners sharp, gilt titles bright; Internally clean and free from annotations, fore-edges a trifle foxed, a couple of very lightly foxed marks at the rear endpaper; Binding tight. Overall an attractive, sturdy copy. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 156 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45545
- Title
- A Quiet Life [Signed]
- Author
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0715609270
- ISBN 13
- 9780715609279
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0715609270
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...