Gilmore's Dairy
by Jones, Lloyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0340379464
- ISBN 13
- 9780340379462
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. 0340379464 . Previous owner's initials on front endpaper. A little bruising to head of spine. Some shelf rubbing to lower edges of spine and boards. Some fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 212 pages. Black boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 134mm. A novel. The author's first book. "Growing up in a small town, Moss Tolley is gripped by three obsessions: - Deirdre, who offers the urgent power of sex and the seduction of art; - her brother Raymond and the dream of success and ideal manhood; - their father Gilmore and the commercial world he represents, its brilliance luring Moss beyond the drab realities of his home and family." - from dust-jacket blurb. Dust-jacket art by Garry Meeson. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22377
- Title
- Gilmore's Dairy
- Author
- Jones, Lloyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0340379464
- ISBN 13
- 9780340379462
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- Auckland
- Date Published
- (1985)
- Keywords
- 0340379464
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...