A Ripple From the Storm
by LESSING, DORIS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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About This Item
Michael Joseph 1958. FIRST EDITION, octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 303pp, VG- (heavy soiling to boards, sl. cocked, moderate tanning and foxing to edges and within) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing and chipping, long closed tears to edges, moderate foxing and tanning to reverse)
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- 270233
- Title
- A Ripple From the Storm
- Author
- LESSING, DORIS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph 1958
- Keywords
- modern first edition literature doris lessing
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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...
- SL.
- slight
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...