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A Guest of Honour (Inscribed first US edition)
by Gordimer, Nadine
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0670356549
- ISBN 13
- 9780670356546
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Adult, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Book is inscribed by author to half title page. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, with contents otherwise unmarked. Book has waviness and light dampstaining to bottom of pages and bottom edges of text block. Shallow fading to spine ends. Unclipped dust jacket has shallow wear to extremities. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C000037814
- Title
- A Guest of Honour (Inscribed first US edition)
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670356549
- ISBN 13
- 9780670356546
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
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- Jacket
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