The Two Faces of Silenus
by CLARKE, Pauline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0571099297
- ISBN 13
- 9780571099290
- Seller
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Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Turquoise cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 162pp. Very slight lean to spine; light bruising to spine ends and light sunning to outer edges of cloth; pages a little musty. Price clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed to edges and sunned to spine.Whilst on holiday in Italy, Rufus and Drusilla throw a coin into the mouth of a stone face in the wall and release Silenus, the wild god of wisdom. [122: F2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jenny Wren Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014341
- Title
- The Two Faces of Silenus
- Author
- CLARKE, Pauline
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571099297
- ISBN 13
- 9780571099290
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
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About the Seller
Jenny Wren Books
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Maidstone, Kent
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- Dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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