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Silas Timberman
by Fast, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Bodley Head, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: James Boswell -- Cover Art. Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, by James Boswell, with black colour titles to the front panel and backstrip. A novel about a man who had a very pleasant life as a professor of American literature in a mid-Western University, who finds himself in the position of either standing up for his belief in free speech or betraying them for material comfort and security. Softening of the backstrip and browning with some foxing to the textblock edges and browning to the internal text. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and backstrip corners. A little Chipping and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and fading to the backstrip. Browning and foxing of the back panel. Browning to the verso of the dustwrapper and a previous owner has repaired tears with tape, residue still visible. Clipping of the dustwrapper fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (8), 9-256 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: James Boswell -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; United States; Inventory No: 0112742. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0112742
- Title
- Silas Timberman
- Author
- Fast, Howard
- Illustrator
- James Boswell -- Cover Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- BZDB2 fiction, America, freedom of speech, conflict, James Boswell -- Cover Art Fiction; United States; James Boswell -- Cover Art Unbranded Fast, Howard Silas Timberman
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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