Heat and Dust
by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0719534011
- ISBN 13
- 9780719534010
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Murray Publishers Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardback. 0719534011 . D/jkt sunned on spine, otherwise colours bright, unclipped. Jacket illustrated by Ron Bowen, who was Head of Undergraduate Painting at the Slade and died in 2018. Green cloth boards, corners sharp. No ownership markings, pages age-toned evenly throughout, binding tight. 1975 reprint. ; 8.5 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches; 192 pages .
Synopsis
Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which won the Booker Prize in 1975.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38528
- Title
- Heat and Dust
- Author
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0719534011
- ISBN 13
- 9780719534010
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- 0719534011
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Walden Books
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About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...