The Desperate People
by Mowat, Farley
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown, 1959. Pages clean, closed edges spotted, spot stain on title page, dust jacket edgeworn, spine ends and corners chipped and bumped, front cover bright and colourful, spine sunned, light staining to covers, boards clean and tidy, maps to endpapers, newspaper article to rear of book dated 28.7.61 regarding publication of book.. First Edition. Hard. Good/Fair. Illus. by Kilbourn, Rosemary. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75221
- Title
- The Desperate People
- Author
- Mowat, Farley
- Illustrator
- Kilbourn, Rosemary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston/Toronto
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Title Page
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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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....