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Cain's Book
by Trocchi, Alexander
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Calder, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Controversial novel about heroin addiction by cult Scottish author. 252 pages. First UK edition, first printing. Red cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket edges, head and tail of spine a little rubbed and creased, couple of small closed tears repaired on verso, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Springhead Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006636
- Title
- Cain's Book
- Author
- Trocchi, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- John Calder
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Springhead Books
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Rochester, Kent
About Springhead Books
Online bookseller specialising in cult authors, architects, artists and designers
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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