Waldo.
by THEROUX, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1967. First edition, first printing, review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid in. Written during his time in Uganda, Theroux's debut novel draws from the author's own life experience in Africa. Octavo. Original black cloth, lettering on spine and front cover in white, yellow endpapers, top edge yellow. With dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth solander box. Gentle rubbing to extremities, a near-fine copy in very good jacket indeed, a little rubbed otherwise bright and sharp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160543
- Title
- Waldo.
- Author
- THEROUX, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....