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Requiem for a Wren
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann,. Hardback. First edition. 284pp. Attractive dust jacket illustrated by Val Biro. Novel, the story of an English Wren, set around D-Day. Red cloth with gilt titles to the spine is very clean and neat though slightly rubbed to spine ends. Binding is very slightly cocked. Dust jacket is lightly tanned to the edges. Dust jacket is also rubbed and creased to edges with some splitting to folds including a one inch tear to the front fore-edge fold at the tail of the spine. Some small loss to the dust jacket spine ends. Not price clipped. Very good copy in good dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1955.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22907
- Title
- Requiem for a Wren
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann,
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Nevil Shute,First editions,First edition novels,War in literature,War , fiction,Fiction,Val Biro
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
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Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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