From an Abandoned Work
by BECKETT, SAMUEL
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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About This Item
Faber and Faber 1958. FIRST EDITION, octavo, string bound light card covers with jacket affixed at flaps, 22pp, VG (moderate tanning & foxing to covers, 2-3cm closed tearing to top & bottom edges of spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (glued to booklet covers at flaps, spine completely torn & covers flapping free with moderate tanning & foxing)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 303049
- Title
- From an Abandoned Work
- Author
- BECKETT, SAMUEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber 1958
- Keywords
- modern first editions literature short stories Samuel Beckett bbc radio fiction
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Closed Tearing
- Closed tear indicates a torn page in which no material has been lost. A closed tear can be pressed back into place or sometimes...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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