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THE BRASS BUTTERFLY. A Play in Three Acts.
by GOLDING, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. , [1958].. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Dust Jacket. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, black titles to spine. 80 pp. Neat ink name on front paste-down (under the jacket flap), a very good clean tight copy in dust jacket, price clipped, one short closed tear.
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- Bookseller
- Thompson Rare Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 302123
- Title
- THE BRASS BUTTERFLY. A Play in Three Acts.
- Author
- GOLDING, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1958].
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Thompson Rare Books
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Hornby Island, British Columbia
About Thompson Rare Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
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