Five Finger Exercise: A Play in Two Acts and Four Scenes
by Peter Shaffer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. First Edition. 110 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpaper and pastedowns. Front free endpaper is missing. Pen inscription to half title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1711040667LEE
- Title
- Five Finger Exercise: A Play in Two Acts and Four Scenes
- Author
- Peter Shaffer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1958
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- 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....
- Half Title
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
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