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Storm of Fortune
by Austin Clarke
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends rubbed and chipped, edges and corners creased and worn with close tears
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound dark brown cloth spine and thatched brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 312 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends rubbed and chipped, edges and corners creased and worn with close tears. Jacket design by John Renfer; photograph by Graeme Gibson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1827
- Title
- Storm of Fortune
- Author
- Austin Clarke
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by John Renfer; photograph by Graeme Gibson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound dark brown cloth spine and thatched brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jack
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends rubbed and chipped, edges and corners creased and worn with close tears
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Austin Clarke, Barbados, Storm of Fortune
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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