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In the Country of the Skin
by Redgrove, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0710075146
- ISBN 13
- 9780710075147
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine . Fine SIGNED first edition in clean unclipped jacket with original banner "Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 1973" still in place. Clean black cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. No previous owner markings. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page as follows: "To Bruce & Mary B__ with love - Peter Redgrove - Dec 1974." 149 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, has slight fading to background of spine, not price clipped; intact wrap-around 1973 banner for Guardian Fiction Prize; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029806
- Title
- In the Country of the Skin
- Author
- Redgrove, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0710075146
- ISBN 13
- 9780710075147
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- FICTION, GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE 1973, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PETER REDGROVE, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED Editions;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
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