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The Pessimist's Handbook: A Companion to Despair
by Niall / Petra Edworthy & Cramsie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 038561411X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385614115
- Seller
-
Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Also includes The Optimist's Handbook a companion to Hope. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Humour; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780385614115. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 30947. . 9780385614115
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- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30947
- Title
- The Pessimist's Handbook: A Companion to Despair
- Author
- Niall / Petra Edworthy & Cramsie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Printed Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 038561411X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385614115
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Humour; EAN: 9780385614115 Niall / Petra Edworthy & Cramsie The Pessimist's Handbook: A Companion to Despair
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
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Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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