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Albion
by Vale, Brenda
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0907349153
- ISBN 13
- 9780907349150
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Spindlewood.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. No rubs slight bump to lower rear edge, minimal shelf wear with very slight fading to top edge. VG* Jacket condition: Black and white illustrated dust wrapper showing two cyclists at the centre of a natural landscape, now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of £6.95. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers, (tan). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 181 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Brenda Vale has created a rich and detailed tableau of an England 75 years on. In doing this she revives an English Literary tradition of utopian writing too long obscured by the visions of Orwell and Huxley. A decentralised green revolution throughout the country has dis-empowered the state and there are no heroes or heroines to be held accountable.* A NEAR FINE copy with minor wear reducing it to VG. Now in protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68
- Title
- Albion
- Author
- Vale, Brenda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0907349153
- ISBN 13
- 9780907349150
- Publisher
- Spindlewood
- Place of Publication
- Barnstaple. Devon, UK 181
- Date Published
- 1982-04-01
- Size
- 23.2 x 15.8 x 2 cm
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Spine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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