Visa For Avalon
by BRYHER
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled orange paper boards. Brown endpapers. Gentle wear to corners. Else, clean, tight and bright. In Harris Lewine's original dust jacket, featuring a blue, cloud-filled sky from the vantage of a plane window: rubbed and creased, closed tear to top edge of front panel. A lovely copy of Bryher's only foray into science fiction. Near fine/ very good The novel wasn't published in the UK. It was re-issed in 2004 by the Paris Press in paperback.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2692
- Title
- Visa For Avalon
- Author
- BRYHER
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.