Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Requiem for a Wren
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0434699160
- ISBN 13
- 9780434699162
- Seller
-
Calgary , Alberta, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1969 1969? reprint of 1955 Heinemann edition good plus condition in very good clipped dust jacket by w. francis phillips showing wren in navy uniform with dog on purple background. Ex library book with light tape mark and price tag residue on dj, tape stains on boards. DJ is not glued to protective cover. Nice clean interior save library accoutrements but v little age toning. V. slightly cocked spine, wear to corners. Blue boards with silver lettering on red spine panel have some fading.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- Sparkle Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000881
- Title
- Requiem for a Wren
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0434699160
- ISBN 13
- 9780434699162
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION AUSTRALIA/ENGLAND WORLD WAR II
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Sparkle Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Sparkle Books
Biblio member since 2008
Calgary , Alberta
About Sparkle Books
I search out used books on principle to highlight their value, keep them circulating and out of the landfill (and just because I am compelled to tell people to "read this"!)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...