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The Spare Room
by Helen Garner
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/As New
- ISBN 10
- 192135139X
- ISBN 13
- 9781921351396
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Text, 2008. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/As New. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 208 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 192135139X. ISBN/EAN: 9781921351396. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB14162. . 9781921351396
Synopsis
The Spare Room is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, set over the course of three weeks while the narrator, Helen, cares for a friend dying of bowel cancer. The Spare Room was published in 2008.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RB14162
- Title
- The Spare Room
- Author
- Helen Garner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Edition
- ISBN 10
- 192135139X
- ISBN 13
- 9781921351396
- Publisher
- Text
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Fiction; ISBN: 192135139X EAN: 9781921351396 Helen Garner The Spare Room
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Octavo
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- New
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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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
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