Garden City: Doubleday, 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. pp. 316. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. General shelfwear, slant to spine. Dustjacket shelfworn, with some nicking and tearing to edges, now in plastic brodart sleeve; very good in good dustjacket.

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Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 090912
Title: The Drowned World and The Wind from Nowhere
Author: Ballard, J.G
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1965

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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....
Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Brodart: Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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...