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Terrible Kisses
by Wilson, Robley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0241127769
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127766
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0241127769 . First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on the half-title page. SIGNED by the author in black ink on the title page. Inscription reads: "To Rolland, with best wishes to a serious fan! Robley March 1992." Includes a photocopy of the book review from The Sunday Times, December 3, 1989. "Robley Wilson's dazzling stories chart the strange habits of love, the snap of sudden disaster, the pain of growing older." - from the dust jacket, US edition. Ships same or next business day. Text block edges are lightly foxed, tail of spine and bottom corners are gently bumped. Dust jacket has light smudges along inside creases, protected by an archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51639
- Title
- Terrible Kisses
- Author
- Wilson, Robley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241127769
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127766
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0241127769
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
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- Title Page
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- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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