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Soul Clap Hands and Sing
by Paule Marshall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
W. H. Allen, London, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. In four remarkable stories, the author explores the themes of loss, loneliness, and self-deception, through the lives of four old men - a small landowner on the island of Barbados, a college professor in Brooklyn, the last of the line of a proud Creole family in British Guiana, and a nightclub comedian in Brazil. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 17461. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17461
- Title
- Soul Clap Hands and Sing
- Author
- Paule Marshall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. H. Allen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Fiction; Paule Marshall Soul Clap Hands and Sing
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- 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
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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