Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile [Signed and Inscribed]
by Derek Walcott
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374286183
- ISBN 13
- 9780374286187
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Signed by Walcott with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 312 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $22.50 price intact. Light brown and beige boards stamped in gilt.
Jacket is crisp with very faint shelfwear and brief smudging to rear panel. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Jacket is crisp with very faint shelfwear and brief smudging to rear panel. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27267
- Title
- Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile [Signed and Inscribed]
- Author
- Derek Walcott
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374286183
- ISBN 13
- 9780374286187
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...