Requiem for a Wren
by SHUTE, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann, 1955. Hardback. First edition, 1955. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. VG; boards are clean and bright, crease to spine, light edgewear with Fair un-clipped dust jacket.; edgeworn with some tears at creases on spine. Published: Heinemann, 1955
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5882
- Title
- Requiem for a Wren
- Author
- SHUTE, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...