A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS. First UK Printing
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Sastamala, Finland
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About This Item
Gollancz, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing of the first UK edition. A VG, clean copy. free from owner names etc. Binding fairly straight and tight although reading crease to the backstrip, pushing to spine tips and bump to top corner of the lower cover. The dustjacket is unclipped but is rubbed at the corners and spine ends and also along the edges with some loss of the laminate but not actual paper. This UK edition is uncommon even though it was published 3 years after the US first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Northern Lights Rare Books (FI)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18042209
- Title
- A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS. First UK Printing
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- american literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Northern Lights Rare Books
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Sastamala
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- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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.