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The Saliva Tree
by Aldiss, Brian W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
-
Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed, offsetting to e.p's. Jacket lightly rubbed, verso lightly foxed, price clipped ; Original geen cloth, spine gilt ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 232 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Haymes & Co.
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B4295
- Title
- The Saliva Tree
- Author
- Aldiss, Brian W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Modern First
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:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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