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Scented Gardens for the Blind
by Frame, Janet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Christchurch: The Pegasus Press. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature "P A Simpson 1963". Moderate foxing to top page edges. A 1" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. A 1/2" tear along rear flap fold of dust wrapper. Several 3/8" chips to ends of dust wrapper spine and to the corners of the dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 192 pages. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 130mm. This New Zealand edition is the true first edition of this title. The author's fifth book. "Erlene is in the next room. She sits, like a blind person, in the dark." - the opening sentence. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12046
- Title
- Scented Gardens for the Blind
- Author
- Frame, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Pegasus Press
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- (1963)
- Keywords
- New Zealand Literature English
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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