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Heat & Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060121971
- ISBN 13
- 9780060121976
- Seller
-
Foster, Rhode Island, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harper & Row, 1976-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 9x5x0. Harper & Row, Publishers; New York, 1976. Hardcover. First US Edition, First Printing. Booker Award Winner. Good+, yellow and red binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, deckle fore-edge, illustrated endpapers/pastedowns, trace handling marks, some shelf wear, bit of sunning to text block edges and pages, few dog eared pages, some scattered foxing top text block edge, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, trace edge/corner wear, some sunning to panels/flaps and verso, very small tear to protective film bottom rear panel edge, Dust Wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 181pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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
- Lavendier Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1027764
- Title
- Heat & Dust
- Author
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060121971
- ISBN 13
- 9780060121976
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976-01-01
- Size
- 9x5x0
- X weight
- 12 oz
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lavendier Books
Biblio member since 2008
Foster, Rhode Island
About Lavendier Books
Selling quailty books for over 20 years.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
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- Text Block
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- Shelf Wear
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Edges
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- New
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