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Neuromancer [First Edition]
by William Gibson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz, 1984. Hardcover. Good. 1984. First Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book has been rebound by library, with stamp to reverse of title page. Pages remain bright and clear with mild tanning to edges. Occasional speckles of foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper and glue remnants to front free endpaper with large area of scuffing to front endpaper. Minor brown stains to fore edge of text block. Occasional brown marks to pages. Text is unaffected. Small green inscription to front endpaper and top edge of first and last pages. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Minor scuffing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
Synopsis
Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the science-fiction "triple crown"—the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's first novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack.
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- Seller
- World of Rare Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 1710782286LEE
- Title
- Neuromancer [First Edition]
- Author
- William Gibson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Date Published
- 1984
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Spine
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Title Page
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