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The Game
by Byatt, A. S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First printing (A on the copyright page). The spine is cocked. The boards have bleached spots, primarily on their edges. The dust jacket has a very small tear near the spine head. The price, $4.95, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game , and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , and Babel Tower . She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects , and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye . Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012222
- Title
- The Game
- Author
- Byatt, A. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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