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AS YOU LIKE IT
by Thomson, Hugh (Shakespeare) 08t
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD book. 1st ltd ed. FINE BUTouter upper hinge split. 11.5"x9"
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder Stroughton. GOOD book. 1st ltd ed. FINE BUTouter upper hinge split. 11.5"x9". 1st ltd ed.. Hardcover. GOOD book. Full vellum. TEG. SIGNED, limited edition, #244/500. AS NEW text, tipped in plates & captioned tissue guards. 141pp. . Full vellum. Gilt lettered and elaborately decorated. Upper hinge split all the way through, inner hinge paper cracked. Other minor cover flaws; lower front tip bumped, spine lightly sunned. .
Synopsis
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, an Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001074
- Title
- AS YOU LIKE IT
- Author
- Thomson, Hugh (Shakespeare) 08t
- Illustrator
- Thomson, 40 tipped in plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD book. 1st ltd ed. FINE BUTouter upper hinge split. 11.5"x9"
- Edition
- 1st ltd ed.
- Publisher
- Hodder Stroughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- GOOD book. Full vellum. TEG. SIGNED, limited edition, #244/500. AS NEW, text, tipped in plates & captioned tissue guards. 141pp., signed, autograph, limited
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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