Reality and Dreams
by SPARK, Muriel; [BOND, Jennie]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable, 1996. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original red cloth, grey-blocked spine label lettered and framed in gilt. Pink endpapers. Gentle pushing to spine ends, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, gentlest creasing to extremities. Near fine/ near fine A lovely, bright copy From the collection of Jennie Bond (1950-), the English journalist and television presenter; she was the BBC's royal correspondent for fourteen years: without inscription.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2406
- Title
- Reality and Dreams
- Author
- SPARK, Muriel; [BOND, Jennie]
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Signed & Association Copies;
Terms of Sale
Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine Label
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