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Sexing the Cherry
by WINTERSON, Jeanette
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 1989. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-stamped 'J W' and stars to upper board, blue ribbon marker. Pushing to spine ends, shallow bump to bottom edge of upper board. Else, clean, bright and tight. In the fabulous original dust jacket. A grand copy of Winterson's third novel. Very good/ near fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1880
- Title
- Sexing the Cherry
- Author
- WINTERSON, Jeanette
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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