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Darkness at Noon
by Koestler, Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- ACC/GD+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0553117068
- ISBN 13
- 9780553117066
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1966* Publisher: Penguin Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Black and white illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, slight rubs. Some shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine, some to hinge. Minor damage at head of spine. GOOD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no reading wear. Heavy tanning to inside of covers, page margins and edges. ACC.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 211 pp. text. v pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The cover shows a detail from ?Man in the Blue V 1954,? by Francis Bacon, in the Galleria d?Arte Gallatea, Turin. Born in Budapest in 1905, he became a journalist and travelled widely as a foreign correspondent. He gave up this profession in 1938 and published his first work with Penguin, writing from then on in English. Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason.* This is a good copy with minor shelf wear but heavily tanned.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4852
- Title
- Darkness at Noon
- Author
- Koestler, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - ACC/GD+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd, Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0553117068
- ISBN 13
- 9780553117066
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth UK 216
- Date Published
- 1966-01-01
- Size
- 17.5 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
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Cocksparrow Books
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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