Villiers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardback. Dust jacket stiff but sunned on spine and at spine edges of both panels, minute watermark stains on front panel; Red cloth boards clean and sharp with minimal shelving wear at base of spine, gilt lettering bright; Edges a touch dusty, but pages otherwise internally clean and crisp with no annotation, dedication by author on ffep; Binding tight. Overall a very nice, signed First Edition copy with minimal wear. ; 5.75 x 8.75"; 67 pages; Signed by Author .

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Bookseller: Walden Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 49404
Title: Private and Public [signed]
Author: Ivens, Michael
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Villiers
Date Published: 1968

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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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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