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The Old Man and Me - a Novel
by Allan Prior
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 1856193802
- ISBN 13
- 9781856193801
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. Comic novel set in the depressed North of the 1930s, by the prolific author and playwright. Black covers with gilt, 228pp. Decorated endpapers. Apart from lightest bumping to head and foot of spine (almost unnoticeable) and yellowing page edges, book has no obvious faults. Unclipped DJ has just very light shelfwear. Ref:114898. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 16x24cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004898
- Title
- The Old Man and Me - a Novel
- Author
- Allan Prior
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1856193802
- ISBN 13
- 9781856193801
- Publisher
- Sinclair-Stevenson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 16x24cm
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
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- VG+/VG
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- 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...
- 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....
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