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Room at the Top
by Braine, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Pp. 256. A true first printing with no statement of reprint to the copyright page. Original green boards, gilt lettering to spine dulled. Clean pages, small inscription to the front endpage. Jacket is a later state with 3rd impression to the front inner flap, not price clipped, wear to the extremities. Laid in is a signed and dated ( 1973 ) letter from the author. The book itself is not signed. .
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013975
- Title
- Room at the Top
- Author
- Braine, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- John Braine,FIRST EDITION,Room at the Top, signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Kelleher Rare Books
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Naas, Kildare
About Kelleher Rare Books
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- 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...
- 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...
- Later State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from a later run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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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