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Gypsy, Gypsy
by Godden, Rumer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Red coloured cloth covered boards with green coloured embossed illustration to the front panel and green coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with pale apricot and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Set in Normandy, and of a woman who needs to find a scapegoat /s for all of the evil that is within her (think Picture of Dorian Gray). Softening of the back strip edges with fading of the lower edge. Rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Age toning of the text block edges and pages with a pink stain to page 143. Very light offset tanning to the endpages along with a few stains. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. A little creasing of the edges with chipping to the front dustwrapper edges. Rubbing of the panels, fold over creases and either side of the back strip. Fading to the back strip with yellowing and handling marks to the rear panel. Some creases to the front fold over panel. This is the first USA edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 287, [3] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; France; Inventory No: 0123955. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0123955
- Title
- Gypsy, Gypsy
- Author
- Godden, Rumer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- BZDB2 literature, France, Normandy, Gypsy, evil, scapegoat Literature & Literary; France; Unbranded Godden, Rumer Gypsy, Gypsy
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Offset
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- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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