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Arrow in the Blue the first volume of an autobiography 1905-31 with a new preface by the author Uniform Danube Edition
by Koestler, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson (Uniform Danube Edition), 1969. Uniform Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations A volume in the Uniform Danube Edition of the works of Arthur Koestler, being the first volume of Koestler's autobiography, covering the first 26 years of his life; black cloth boards with silver titling to spine, and silver spiral motif to front board; former owner's name to front pastedown, endpapers, prelims, and text block foxed (medium foxing to text block) occasional light foxing in text, some wear to edges of boards, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, worn strip to front flap at fold, price clipped, minor lifting of original celoglaze around spine, o.w. G-VG.
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20105
- Title
- Arrow in the Blue the first volume of an autobiography 1905-31 with a new preface by the author Uniform Danube Edition
- Author
- Koestler, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper
- Jacket Condition
- Dustwrapper
- Edition
- Uniform Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson (Uniform Danube Edition)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 415pp
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
Gotcha By The Books
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Camira, Queensland
About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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