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The Debt to Pleasure
by Lanchester, John - SCARCE SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0330344544
- ISBN 13
- 9780330344548
- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Picador London, 1996 SIGNED by the author on the title page. 1st edition 1st impression hardback with full number line in protected unclipped jacket. Both book and jacket in fine UNREAD condition. No inscriptions just the author's signature on the title page in blue ink. This is a perfect collectable copy of the world first edition, and it is not a book club edition, or an ex library, or a remainder. No damaged corners, black board binding with silver titling. A superb writer, and this is his first novel, scarce as a signed first. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
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- Seller
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- Seller's Inventory #
- ABE-6773309379
- Title
- The Debt to Pleasure
- Author
- Lanchester, John - SCARCE SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0330344544
- ISBN 13
- 9780330344548
- Publisher
- Picador London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
Terms of Sale
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About the booksniffer
Modern First Editions, signed where possible, adult and young adult, illustrated books, Antiquarian. And, apart from the book selling, I am a writer and painter. Look at my stuff online at peterkettle.com and buy my prize winning novel, The Driftwood Giraffe on kindle.
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