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The Visitor
by Maeve Brennan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1902602668
- ISBN 13
- 9781902602660
- Seller
-
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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About This Item
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First Edition. Octavo. Hardcover with black cloth to boards and gilt lettering. 86 pp. New Island (Dublin), 2001. Foreword by Clare Boylan. Editor's note by Christopher Carduff. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Slight foxing to head of text block caused by dust accumulation, rest of book is pristine. Not price-clipped. No marks or wear to binding.
Written in the 1940s but not discovered until after Brennan's passing, this brief novella is widely considered to be her finest work.
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- Bookseller
- Quinn Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IL003
- Title
- The Visitor
- Author
- Maeve Brennan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, black cloth to boards with gilt titles.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1902602668
- ISBN 13
- 9781902602660
- Publisher
- New Island
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 86
- Size
- Octavo.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Quinn Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quinn Rare Books
Biblio member since 2023
Dublin, Dublin
About Quinn Rare Books
We specialise in rare and out of print books of Irish interest. We are book collectors ourselves and strive to offer buyers the best value for the highest quality books.
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- Jacket
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- New
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
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