Children of the Albatross
by Anais Nin, Preface by Lawrence Durrell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Nr Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Peter Owen Ltd, 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Nr Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Attractive dust-jacket designed by Eric Patton, not price clipped, faded along spine and lightly worn at spine ends and corners but remaining very clean and tidy. Book bound in light grey cloth with gilt titles, clean bright and square. Contents unmarked, unused, as new.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037240
- Title
- Children of the Albatross
- Author
- Anais Nin, Preface by Lawrence Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nr Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Peter Owen Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
David's Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
David's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2022
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
About David's Bookshop
Open since 1963, David's Bookshop & Music Shop are located in two linked shops in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes walk from Morrisons supermarket, the railway station and Letchworth Shopping Centre. There is ample parking nearby. As the world's first Garden City, Letchworth has much to offer visitors. We stock books and guides about Letchworth's past and present. At the Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer. The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. Contact us online at www.davids-bookshops.co.uk.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...