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Take Any City
by Joseph, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0709111622
- ISBN 13
- 9780709111627
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London / New Zealand: Robert Hale & Company / Whitcombe & Tombs. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 0709111622 . Ex-library. Some library stamps and markings. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers. A 25mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 159, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 198 x 128mm. New Zealand author. A novel. "Harvey Gilliand, famous English author, has foundo that success sometimes brings a moral decadence. His marriage broken by his infidelity excalates debauchery and in order to take stock of himself, he goes to New Zealand. A chance meeting in a Wellington coffee bar changes the whole course of his life [. . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. Title page has dual imprint: London: Robert Hale & Company / New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. Spine of book and dust-jacket both have "Whitcombe & Tombs". No price printed on front flap of dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21361
- Title
- Take Any City
- Author
- Joseph, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0709111622
- ISBN 13
- 9780709111627
- Publisher
- Robert Hale & Company / Whitcombe & Tombs
- Place of Publication
- London / New Zealand
- Date Published
- (1970)
- Keywords
- 0709111622
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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