A Standard of Behaviour
by William Trevor
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1958. First Edition. Small octavo (7.5" x 5"); 199pp. Original dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket is rubbed along top edge with some smudging and a few shallow tears, along with some toning to back panel and darkening down spine. Boards nudged at spine ends and lightly bumped at a couple corners. Spine very slightly cocked. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Trevor's disowned first novel, which he refused to let be reissued.
Trevor's disowned first novel, which he refused to let be reissued.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12422
- Title
- A Standard of Behaviour
- Author
- William Trevor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...