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The Soft Machine
by Burroughs, William
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
-
BERKELEY, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris: The Olympia Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Traveller's Companion Series, No. 88.Stiff green wraps, perfect bound. Illlustrated b&w dust jacket with white and pink lettering designed by Brion Gysin. The First Edition, printed June 1961, second state with overstamped New Price NF 18 stamped to rear cover. ; 4-1/4" x 7" (11 x 17 cm); 184 pp; Mild wear to wraps, clean and unmarked, spot of wear including tiny closed tears and creasing at upper right corner of 4 pp and with tiny creases at corners of a few additional leaves. Jacket with light soiling, rubbed and lightly creased at top and bottom of folds, spine slightly dulled .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andrew Langer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5379
- Title
- The Soft Machine
- Author
- Burroughs, William
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Olympia Press
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Andrew Langer, Bookseller
Telephone 510-684-4146. Photos available upon request, happy to answer questions.
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About the Seller
Andrew Langer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
BERKELEY, California
About Andrew Langer, Bookseller
Member ABAA, Member IOBA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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