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The Speakers
by Heathcote Williams
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good book, text block top edge dust-soiled; very good dust jacket, lightly soiled with some creasing and wear, close tear t
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 1964. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, 208 pp. Very good book, text block top edge dust-soiled; very good dust jacket, lightly soiled with some creasing and wear, close tear to edges. Jacket design by Jack Larkin; photography by Stephen Fry and Jay Maisels. Title page inscription, 'For Joe from Heathcote [Williams]'. A kind of sociological case study of the street preachers of Hyde Park expressed in experimental prose. Heathcote Williams' first book.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2101
- Title
- The Speakers
- Author
- Heathcote Williams
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Jack Larkin; photography by Stephen Fry and Jay Maisels
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, 208 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, text block top edge dust-soiled; very good dust jacket, lightly soiled with some creasing and wear, close tear t
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- The Speakers, Heathcote Williams
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Ridgewood, New York
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Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
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