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Requiem for a Wren
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
Melbourne: Heinemann, 1955. Red cloth, gilt text on spine. 287pp. Cloth is worn on top and bottom edges. Sellotape marks to eps. Ffep has bookstore stamp and blue pen numerals. DJ has price intact, chipped at spine head and tail and front joint, previous plastic cover has left tape marks to the reverse of jacket. . First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000423
- Title
- Requiem for a Wren
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Australian Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Fiction Romance Love War Friendship Australia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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