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The Rule of Four
by Caldwell, Ian Thomason, Dustin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/VG
- ISBN 10
- 1844130053
- ISBN 13
- 9781844130054
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Century.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Black and white illustration and title to dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some label damage to front of cover. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top and fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawn illustrations within text.* Pages: 372 pp. text.* Description: Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars who have tried to understand its many mysteries since its publication in 1499. Coded in seven languages, the text is at once a passionate love story, an intricate mathematical labyrinth, and a tale of arcane brutality. Tom and his roommate stir up matters and find themselves in great danger when they discover a long-lost diary and a fellow researcher is murdered.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. 1st. with minor faults reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4008
- Title
- The Rule of Four
- Author
- Caldwell, Ian Thomason, Dustin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edition, late impression.
- ISBN 10
- 1844130053
- ISBN 13
- 9781844130054
- Publisher
- Century
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 384
- Date Published
- 2004-05-05
- Size
- 23 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Tail
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Bumps
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- Price Clipped
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- Edges
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