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Solaris
by Lem, Stanislaw
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bob Eggleton. Bound in blue leather with debossed gilt flame decoration on front board, rear board, and spine. Spine with five raised bands. Blue pyramids design on vanilla endpapers. Frontispiece by Bob Eggleton, no other illustrations. All edges gilt. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 millimeters). 204 pages.
Condition: Very Good+. Binding tight- slightly spread. Scant marring to gilt finish of text block.
Condition: Very Good+. Binding tight- slightly spread. Scant marring to gilt finish of text block.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Boheme
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4
- Title
- Solaris
- Author
- Lem, Stanislaw
- Illustrator
- Bob Eggleton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 2008
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
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- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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....
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