Constable & Company Ltd 1974. First edition, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 232pp, VG (owner's name and old price in ink to f.e.p., slight bruising to spine extrems, v light tanning to eps, v light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, v light tanning to flaps & inside, slight creasing to edges)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
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Title: The Abolition of Death
Author: ANDERSON, JAMES
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Constable & Company Ltd 1974
Keywords: James Anderson science fiction fantasy literature novel first edition

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Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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...
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...
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