Thin Ice
por Mackenzie, Compton
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Good
- Livreiro
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first impression. 224pp. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges spotted, top text block edge a little dust marked. Previous owner's name flamboyantly on front free endpaper, with separate ownership label. Hint of toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, rubbed on corners and spine ends, with small area of loss on lower leading corner, larger loss on verso, which is also marked and creased. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A delicate novel of friendship which shifts between London, Morocco, Hampshire and Kenya, Somerset and the Seychelles.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 023338
- Título
- Thin Ice
- Autor
- Mackenzie, Compton
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Local de publicação
- London, UK
- Data de publicação
- 1956
- Dimensão
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- Modern Fiction Firsts, Fiction, Novels
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
