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Alarums [Signed]
by Richard Laymon
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 074720697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747206972
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Headline, 1993. Very Good/Very Good. London: Headline, 1993. First UK Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (24cm); [viii],309pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £15.99 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges and corners. Boards sturdy and square with light bumping at spine ends. Opens easily between a few gatherings, but binding is sound. Pages toning but unmarked.
Signed by Laymon on front title with inscription, but though without dedication, "May all your alarms be false." Originally published months prior in the U.S. under the title Alarms.
Signed by Laymon on front title with inscription, but though without dedication, "May all your alarms be false." Originally published months prior in the U.S. under the title Alarms.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29550
- Title
- Alarums [Signed]
- Author
- Richard Laymon
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 074720697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747206972
- Publisher
- Headline
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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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