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The Ardour of the Crowd
by Wilson, Guy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Good+. First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book with his inscription and SIGNED on front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Forsythe with very best wishes from Guy, 10-11-61." Black cloth boards are clean with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Some foxing to endpapers, text block edges; all text pages are clean. 252 pages. Dust jacket has slight edge wear, a few short closed edge tears, soft vertical crease to front panel, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel set in an English public school. His theme is the conflict between individuals and the institution. A serious and absorbing story, whose implications carry well beyond the small world in which it takes place..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029833
- Title
- The Ardour of the Crowd
- Author
- Wilson, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- SIGNED FIRST EDITION, GUY WILSON, EDUCATION, TEACHING, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED Editions; Education;
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About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- New
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