New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, 1973, hardcover with cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, 319pp., not illustrated. Book VG with toning and soil to boards (mostly around edges), binding tight, text clean and unmarked but edges of text block foxed. DJ VG with rubbing, toning, soil.

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Bookseller: Common Crow Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: B42245
Title: The Chip-Chip Gatherers
Author: Naipaul, Shiva
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American edition
ISBN 10: 0394483456
ISBN 13: 9780394483450
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1973
Keywords: Literature

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VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...