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The Mockery Bird
by Gerald Durrell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002226030
- ISBN 13
- 9780002226035
- Seller
-
Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition and printing. In near fine very bright green cloth boards gilt titles to back strip; very slightly shelf-cocked. The boards are very clean, tight and straight. White unmarked end papers and cut edges. The text block is tightly bound, square and not tanned or marked - near fine condition and excellent for age. No dedications etc. In very good brightly illustrated dust jacket with bird and couple in boat in lush surroundings. The jacket is very clean and with slight wear to top edge. Price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clevedon Community Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64009
- Title
- The Mockery Bird
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0002226030
- ISBN 13
- 9780002226035
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 224
Terms of Sale
Clevedon Community Bookshop
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About the Seller
Clevedon Community Bookshop
Biblio member since 2012
Clevedon, Somerset
About Clevedon Community Bookshop
Clevedon Community Bookshop, co-operatively owned, opened on 31 December 2011 and now has a general stock of approximately 20,000 books. Our bookshop in Copse Road is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00am to 4.00pm. The co-operative comprises just over 600 members from around the world and was set up to stop the only second-hand bookshop in our town from closing. The benefit of being a member/shareholder is only social: no-one benefits financially. All profits are used to improve the bookshop and its stock, and, through events, to contribute to the literacy and literary profile of our town. The Bookshop Manager has fifteen years' experience in second-hand bookselling. Email us if you would like to join our co-operative and thus jointly own our bookshop with us.
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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