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Earthworks
by Aldiss, Brian
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0450011410
- ISBN 13
- 9780450011412
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1967 * Publisher: Four Square.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing decaying corpse rising from the sea above steamer. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some colouration to page margins and edges. Some tape marks to inside of covers and to half title. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 126 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Disease-ridden; over populated; robots and prison-gangs tending the bare, poison-drenched countryside; the people near starvation. This is the world Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller, and captain of the tramp-freighter Trieste Star knows and accepts- because there is nothing better to hope for. To the beautiful girl named Justine it is a degrading and inhuman condition which can be overcome by global war ? a war she wants Knowle to start.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minimal shelf wear & some age.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1026
- Title
- Earthworks
- Author
- Aldiss, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0450011410
- ISBN 13
- 9780450011412
- Publisher
- Four Square
- Place of Publication
- London UK 128
- Date Published
- 1967-01-01
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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...
- Bumps
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Crisp
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