Get Ready for Battle
by JHABVALA, R. Prawer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1962. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Green cloth, black lettering to spine. Gentle pushing to spine ends, light spotting to top edge, a few light marks to boards. Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket by D V Cowen: price-clipped, with 'John Murray �1.25 net' sticker to front flap, edgewear, lightly soiled, a few scores. Near fine/ very good. A pleasing copy of the Booker Prize-winning novelist's fifth novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1593
- Title
- Get Ready for Battle
- Author
- JHABVALA, R. Prawer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Soiled
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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