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The L-Shaped Room + The Backward Shadow + Two Is Lonely ( 3 Volumes of the trilogy)
by BANKS Lynne Reid
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960 (1500 gram rate for 3 vols) 3 first editions in generally VG condition, the complete trilogy, details ; The L-Shaped Room, 1960, small name to fep, unclipped dust jacket has split corners and short splits at joint ends with minor chipping to head and tail of spine, faint spotting (minimal) 319pp / The Backward Shadow, 1970 VG but ex-library with stamps to half title and closed edges, front fep pasted down , dust jacket price clipped and VG with two very small clean edge splits, minor tape rust to rear fold in flap, 270pp / Two Is Lonely, 1974 VG clean tidy copy in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket but which has light handling soiling which should wipe off the publisher's laminated surface, 280pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.
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Details
- Seller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 007128
- Title
- The L-Shaped Room + The Backward Shadow + Two Is Lonely ( 3 Volumes of the trilogy)
- Author
- BANKS Lynne Reid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- British Modern first Edition Fiction Literature Women's Female Writing
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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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...
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