The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. 183 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt.
Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with a 1" closed tear along top edge of rear panel and touch of fading to spine. Boards show light wear to extremities with some soiling to top edge and vertical crease running the length of spine. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket (Claude Gill Books of London) to front pastedown, but otherwise pages unmarked.
Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with a 1" closed tear along top edge of rear panel and touch of fading to spine. Boards show light wear to extremities with some soiling to top edge and vertical crease running the length of spine. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket (Claude Gill Books of London) to front pastedown, but otherwise pages unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12638
- Title
- The Girls of Slender Means
- Author
- Muriel Spark
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
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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- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...