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To the Slaughterhouse
by Giono, Jean
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Peter Owen, 1969. 1st Thus . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First thus. 216pp. Blue cloth-covered boards. 12mo. Lightly rubbed spine heel. Text blocks just starting to tan. Lender's stamps and markings on front free endpaper and copyright page. Otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket protected with Brodart sleeve, spine sun-faded, label on spine, has very light shelf wear, not price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023765
- Title
- To the Slaughterhouse
- Author
- Giono, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus
- Publisher
- Peter Owen
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
Biblio member since 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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