Thrilling Cities
by Fleming, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. White and gray boards with mild soil and browning to edges. DJ protected in mylar has light edgewear, browning and creasing, a few closed tears of less than 1", and original 30s price intact. Pink lettering and spine are bright and not faded. Shaken binding and clean text. Lightly browned pages. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. Intact errata slip tipped in at page 223.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages .
Synopsis
Thrilling Cities is the title of a collection of non-fiction travel articles by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. The book was published by Glidrose Productions first in Great Britain in 1963, followed by an American edition in 1964. The book is a collection of articles Fleming wrote for the London Sunday Times, based on two trips he took between 1959 and 1960 at the behest of Times travel editor Leonard Russell. The book version includes material edited out of the original articles.
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Details
- Seller
- Old Editions Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9373
- Title
- Thrilling Cities
- Author
- Fleming, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...