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City Solitary
by Nicolas, Freeling
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- GD/GD/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0140094024
- ISBN 13
- 9780140094022
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1961* Publisher: Beaverbrook Newspapers.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers (showing Granny on a bike heading down the High Street). Considerable creases & rubs to front cover particularly edges and corners. Severe diagonal crease to rear. Some shelf wear to edges & corners. Spine shows some age, wear and damage to head and tail. Covers a little grubby. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Title page not price clipped showing shelf price of 4/6d and with introduction by Bud Flanagan. Crisp, tight & bright. Staples a little rusted. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight age to page margins and edges. End papers slightly grubby and spotted. Several page corners nibbled particularly last page. ACC* Illustrations: B/w line drawn cartoons throughout.* Pages: Unpaginated.* Product Description:- Giles 15th series cartoon annual contains social comment from the headlines commencing Oct 9th. 1960 and finishing Oct 10th 1961. The cover shows Gandma on her bicycle in a deserted main street heading for a corner and on the back cover a large flock of sheep approaching the same corner from the opposite direction!* This is an ACC copy of the 1st. thus with a fair amount of age & shelf wear.*
Synopsis
Keeper of Dreams (2008) is a short story collection by Orson Scott Card. It contains twenty-two stories by Card which do not appear in his collection Maps in a Mirror. This collection was released on April 15, 2008.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 619
- Title
- City Solitary
- Author
- Nicolas, Freeling
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - GD/GD/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0140094024
- ISBN 13
- 9780140094022
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York, USA 208
- Date Published
- 1986-11-01
- Size
- 17.8 x 2.5 x 12.7 cm
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