CONSIDER PHLEBAS
by Banks, Ian M
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Dunne Book | St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 471, [1] pp. First U.S. edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. Binding has light shelfwear but has a slight forward lean; contents are clean; a solid copy in a very sharp dust jacket with just a bit of sunning to the spine; price intact on the front flap. A nice copy of the American first edition of the first novel in Bank's Culture series; and his first published work of science fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8283
- Title
- CONSIDER PHLEBAS
- Author
- Banks, Ian M
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good binding
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Book | St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction; Genre Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Glossary
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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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...