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Cryptozoic! [UK title: An Age] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Brian W. Aldiss
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. First American Edition (stated). Bookplate signed by Aldiss loosely laid in.
Octavo; 240pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a half-inch closed tear at top back, along with some light scuffs and smudges to surface and some toning / foxing to back panel and flaps. Foxing and a small tape repair to jacket interior. Boards a bit faded at edges, with nudging to spine ends. Toning to endpapers along hinge, else interior clean and unmarked. Binding is tight.
Initially published in the UK as An Age, the dystopian novel won Australia's Ditmar Award for Best International Science Fiction in 1969.
Octavo; 240pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a half-inch closed tear at top back, along with some light scuffs and smudges to surface and some toning / foxing to back panel and flaps. Foxing and a small tape repair to jacket interior. Boards a bit faded at edges, with nudging to spine ends. Toning to endpapers along hinge, else interior clean and unmarked. Binding is tight.
Initially published in the UK as An Age, the dystopian novel won Australia's Ditmar Award for Best International Science Fiction in 1969.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10086
- Title
- Cryptozoic! [UK title: An Age] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
- Author
- Brian W. Aldiss
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1968
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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