The Consort
by Heckstall-Smith, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good ++
- Seller
-
Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1965 Book. Very Good ++. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. VG++/VG++. 1st Edition. Comic opera fantasy" (from the jacket blurb). Book is by British author, but publication was suppressed in Britain for fear of offending Buck House. Book has two jackets, the o uter one depicting a queen and consort suitably garbed in crowns and ermine cloaks, the inner jacket has the same picture but with the queen replaced by a South Sea Island girl of buxom build and defi cient attire. Jackets by Bill Murphy. BOOK:- Softening of the spine head and heel ridges, one small corner bump. Small abrasion on rear board right edge, where a rodent had eaten through the flap hing e of the jackets, but stopped short at the book (must have been a British rat, didn't like the American binding), Small traiangular stamp at top of FFEP. No other markings. DUST JACKET:- Intact, with price. Mild edge-crumple. No tears. No chipping. Two oval perforations on the rear flap hinge seam, where a rodent had begun its attack, but abandoned it on tasting the book. A scan of the jacket is a vailable on request..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Klanhorn
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004546
- Title
- The Consort
- Author
- Heckstall-Smith, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York: Grove Press, 1965
- Keywords
- BILL MURPHY JACKET SATIRE HUMOUR ALL BOOKS AS AT END JUNE 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Satire & Tragicomedy;
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About the Seller
Klanhorn
Biblio member since 2006
Queanbeyan, NSW
About Klanhorn
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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