DOCHERTY - First UK Printing, Signed
by McIlvanney, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Sastamala, Finland
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. Original black cloth with bright red titles at the backstrip. First Printing. 324 pp. Lightly pushed at the spine tips and bumped at the corners of the lower cover. At the front endpaper there is a gift inscription (two lines, name and date). Text-block toned commensurate with age only. The book is square and tight with no reading creases to the backstrip. The dustjacket is unclipped but the original price has been inexpertly scraped off. No nicks or tears to the edges or corners, some colour fading to the spine and also the rear panel but overall a VG dustjacket. A nice copy, SIGNED and inscribed without dedication ("Best Wishes, Willie McIlvanney") for the seller in person. Now a genuinely scarce title. particluarly signed.
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- Bookseller
- Northern Lights Rare Books (FI)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26032204
- Title
- DOCHERTY - First UK Printing, Signed
- Author
- McIlvanney, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SCOTTISH LITERATURE, GRAITHNOCK, GLASGOW, THE HIGH STREET
- Bookseller catalogs
- Scottish interest;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Northern Lights Rare Books
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Sastamala
About Northern Lights Rare Books
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- 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....
- VG
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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