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Whore Banquets
by Matthew Kneale
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0575039213
- ISBN 13
- 9780575039216
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Victor Gollancz, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Cloth Boards & Dust Jacket, 8vo, 155 pages, good condition Dust Jacket has light rubbing/bumping, some marking to spine, small tear to head of rear hinge, clean Cloth Boards, pages clean and white. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0575039213. ISBN/EAN: 9780575039216. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: X18590. . 9780575039216
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- X18590
- Title
- Whore Banquets
- Author
- Matthew Kneale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0575039213
- ISBN 13
- 9780575039216
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- BZDB1 fiction japan Fiction; ISBN: 0575039213 EAN: 9780575039216 Matthew Kneale Whore Banquets
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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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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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