The Brightfount Diaries
by Aldiss, Brian W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Fading to tail of spine. Some tears and chips to ends of dust wrapper spine and to corners of dust wrapper. Moderate foxing to the dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 200 pages. Blue cloth boards. An author best known for his science fiction and fantasy. This is a novel set in a provincial bookshop. Aldiss himself was working in a bookshop at the time of writing. The author's first book.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5912
- Title
- The Brightfount Diaries
- Author
- Aldiss, Brian W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1955)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.