The Last Exile
by Aldridge, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First American Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Very small bump to rear board top edge. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Small previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper. 738 pages. Attractive illustrated dust jacket has light soiling and edge chipping, is not price clipped. Told against a background of the timelessness of the desert and the immediacy of Cairo's cosmopolitan life, and against the plots and counterplots that led to the brief but bitter war over the Suez Canal, this is the story of a man born in Egypt of English parents..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028604
- Title
- The Last Exile
- Author
- Aldridge, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, JAMES ALDRIDGE, MIDDLE EAST
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Stanley, New York
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Jacket
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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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.