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Espedair Street
by Banks, Iain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0333449169
- ISBN 13
- 9780333449165
- Seller
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1987 VG+/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (inscrip. to verso FFE, leaf edges tanned & spotted, tail edge rubbed, slight offsetting to outer leaves) in dustwrapper (minor rubbing to extremities); pp. 250 (last blank). A very good copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.
Synopsis
Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1987.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009139
- Title
- Espedair Street
- Author
- Banks, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0333449169
- ISBN 13
- 9780333449165
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Iain Banks Espedair Street Modern Literature Scottish Authors
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
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