The Midwich Cuckoos
by Wyndham, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Offsetting to endpapers. Jacket mildly foxed, extremities lightly rubbed, more so at spine ends, price clipped; Overall a nice copy in like dustjacket ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 240 pages .
Synopsis
The Midwich Cuckoos is a science fiction novel written by English author John Wyndham, published in 1957. It has been filmed twice as Village of the Damned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Haymes & Co. (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B4271
- Title
- The Midwich Cuckoos
- Author
- Wyndham, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Modern First, Science Fiction
Terms of Sale
Haymes & Co.
Al l books are sold as complete or as otherwise described. Any item found to be not as described may be returned within 7 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Haymes & Co.
Biblio member since 2022
Kingscliff, New South Wales
About Haymes & Co.
Haymes & Co. are 6th generation antiquarian booksellers. Our foundations trace back to Rotterdam, Holland, in the early 19th century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...