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The Dark Of Summer
by Linklater, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD++/VG++/GD++
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1957* Publisher: The Popular Book Club in association with Jonathan Cape Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine (slightly tarnished). No bumps or rubs. VG* Jacket condition: Black cerise & white design to dust wrapper showing a young couple discovering a body on the cliff-top, white titles to face and black to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 4/-. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges & to head and tail of faded spine, now in clear protective cover. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, some age to paper throughout and to all edges. GD++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 280 pp. text. ii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: An enthralling story based in the islands of Shetland where an army officer becomes involved in the suicide of a treacherous Shetlander and his bereaved family. The first half of the book combines an idyllic love story with a complicated account of a small HMS vessel travelling in the Faroe Islands in WW2, looking for traitors, both British and Norwegian. When the vessel returns to the Shetland Isles where he becomes involved in a complicated suicide. From there, the reader's interest in the protagonist is captured, as he grows in a rather unexpected mid-level military career via Korea to find happiness in a far-flung and isolated part of Scotland.* A GD++ text copy of the 1st thus in VG++ boards.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 853
- Title
- The Dark Of Summer
- Author
- Linklater, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD++/VG++/GD++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus,
- Publisher
- The Popular Book Club /Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 280
- Date Published
- 1957-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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