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Fireflies
by Naipaul, Shiva
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 039442493X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394424934
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo. 438 pp, stated First American Edition, a novel. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved, bottom foreedge textblock with tiney smudge - shelf wear, still Near Fine/HC. 6" x 8.9" black cloth boards, red & gilt design and letters to spine and fr board, in unclipped DJ, with acetate protector. DJ with light edgewear to spine top/bottom. DJ color intact..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008988
- Title
- Fireflies
- Author
- Naipaul, Shiva
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039442493X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394424934
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Shiva Naipaul b. 1945, author's first novel - The Khoja family - Trinidad's Hindu community - fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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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