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The Happier Life
by Dunn, Douglas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/near Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571099319
- ISBN 13
- 9780571099313
- Seller
-
Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/near Very Good. 1st printing. Pp 72. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket is somewhat soiled and a touch worn at the edges with a couple of small closed tears.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Glass Key
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88873
- Title
- The Happier Life
- Author
- Dunn, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571099319
- ISBN 13
- 9780571099313
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
The Glass Key
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About the Seller
The Glass Key
Biblio member since 2005
Montmorillon
About The Glass Key
A small general stock with a leaning to crime fiction, poetry and literature.
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Cloth
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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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