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The Birdcage
by Willett, Marcia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0593051238
- ISBN 13
- 9780593051238
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Bantam.* Binding and cover condition: Navy cloth, Gilt title to spine. Minimal bumps to corners and minor dents to front and top edge. Otherwise VG* Jacket condition: Illustrative dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £10.00. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal paper colouration to fore and top edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 414 pp. text.* Description: It was Felix who first called it The Birdcage - that strange and quirky household in Bristol with its close, loving women including the superbly flamboyant Angel. Angel's daughter Lizzie had loved living there as a child - and she had also loved Felix, the nearest she had to a father, whose loyalties had been strained to the limit by his deeply jealous wife Marina. Lizzie was always aware that Felix had another life at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor where he tried to bring up his son Piers in a loving and peaceful environment. When Lizzie, many years later, comes at last to Michaelgarth and meets Piers for the first time, she finds a family which is in trouble - and which, miraculously, needs her to help them to heal.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st, with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Wear to dust jacket reduces it to VG.*
Synopsis
Housman's second and final publication, in which he continues his fatalistic theme begun in Shropshire Lad. Man's only response to such a cruel and dismal life is to bravely face it until death's release. While not as widely known and acclaimed as Shropshire Lad, Housman's command of the craft remains undeniable.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 345
- Title
- The Birdcage
- Author
- Willett, Marcia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0593051238
- ISBN 13
- 9780593051238
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 320
- This edition first published
- August 2, 2004
- Size
- 23.4 x 14.8 x 4 cm
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Shelf Wear
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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....
- Crisp
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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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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