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Corridors of Power
by C P Snow
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Longford , Longford, Ireland
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About This Item
First Edition. London. 1964.
Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ
The ninth book in the writer's Strangers and Brothers sequence.
The cloth bound red coloured boards are clean, free of markings and showing no wear. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding tight. No markings or inscriptions except for previous sale price and description in pencil on first blank.
Edges browning slightly and slight age toning to leaves.
The DJ cover has striking artwork by Sidney Nolan. DJ is complete and not price clipped. It has barely noticeable wear at extremities. Now in a protective removeable sleeve.
Overall, a lovely First Edition in a highly collectible condition.
Synopsis
Originally published: London, Macmillan, 1964.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dephen Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20258
- Title
- Corridors of Power
- Author
- C P Snow
- Format/Binding
- Cloth bound hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 408
- Size
- 20 x 13.5 cms
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First, Literature
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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