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Ulverton
by Adam Thorpe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0436520745
- ISBN 13
- 9780436520747
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Secker & Warburg, London, 1992. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 381 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0436520745. ISBN/EAN: 9780436520747. Library of Congress No: 93184712. Dewey Code: 823/.914 20. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB13110. . 9780436520747
Synopsis
ADAM THORPE was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton , was published in 1992, and he has published two books of stories and six poetry collections -- most recently Voluntary . His new translation of Madame Bovary has just been published. He lives in France with his wife and family.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RB13110
- Title
- Ulverton
- Author
- Adam Thorpe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0436520745
- ISBN 13
- 9780436520747
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Villages Fiction, Wessex (England) Fiction, Historical fiction Fiction; ISBN: 0436520745 EAN: 9780436520747 Adam Thorpe Ulverton
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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