My Guru and His Disciple
by Isherwood, Christopher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0413469301
- ISBN 13
- 9780413469304
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. N/a. 338pp. (cream spine) 8vo. sized 1980. First edition. A lovely, clean, tight very good first edition copy in a very good minus jacket. No inscriptions. Original publisher's black cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. Some spotting to the upper fore-edge. A soil mark to the lower fore-edge and an ink cross to the lower fore-edge. The jacket has not been price-clipped; it has a couple of creases to the upper corner of the front flap and something similar to both corners of the rear flap. The jacket has shelf wear and rubbing to the peripheries
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 239990
- Title
- My Guru and His Disciple
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Illustrator
- N/a
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0413469301
- ISBN 13
- 9780413469304
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Keywords
- ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER, 1904-1986 AUTHORS, ENGLISH
- X weight
- 20 oz
Terms of Sale
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