TAKE MY FACE
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
-
Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Los Angeles, California, USA: Underwood-Miller. Bound in clean brown cloth with bright gilt tiles to spine, this 1988 hardcover First Thus Edition is VG in VG Jacket(unclipped). Dustcover shows dead girl on floor with knife close by and eye-part of mask above with empty eye sockets. 222pp with 16 chapters and clean brown patterned endpapers all present. Old London phone number at top of verso of rear endpaper. Jacket is 99.9% complete with two tiny chips at top and tail of spine, and similar tiny chips at four corners of return flaps. Slight rubbing to spine and return flap edges, and small stain top right corner of front panel (2cm x 1cm). Boards are clean and interior very clean. Generally VG. . Very Good. Hardcover.. First Edition Thus. 1988.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0021951
- Title
- TAKE MY FACE
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Underwood-Miller
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Jack Vance: Take My Face (1988)
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- The heel of the spine.
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