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The Caretakers
by Telfer, Dariel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Macdonald. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-libris Hardwicke Knight with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Small abrasion to front free endpaper. Dustjacket with moderater rubbing and creasing and a few small 1/4" tears at head of dustjacket spine. Quite heavy rubbing to dustjacket spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 445 pages. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 195 x 126mm. "The Caretakers is a novel about the doctors, nurses and attendants who live and work behind the locked doors and barred windows of a big American mental hospital" - from dustjacket blurb. "Well I'm here, Kathy Hunter thought, glancing around from her vantage point beneath a tall tree on one of the green slopes overlooking Canterbury" - the opening sentence. [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15607
- Title
- The Caretakers
- Author
- Telfer, Dariel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macdonald
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1960)
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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