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Scented Gardens for the Blind
by Frame, Janet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: George Braziller. Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition. 252 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on front board and gilt and red lettering on spine. Ex-library. Library stamps on page edges and copyright page. Owner's sticker on front free endpaper. 3/4" chip to dustwrapper spine. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped. 1/16" tear at tail of dustwrapper spine. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 001991
- Title
- Scented Gardens for the Blind
- Author
- Frame, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- New Zealand Literature Women's
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.
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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