Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1841156582 ISBN 13: 9781841156583
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited Fourth Estate, London United Kingdom, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007278853 ISBN 13: 9780007278855
Language: English
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardback xx + 364 pages Fine condition in fine unclippe dust jacket No inscriptions.
Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0007162537 ISBN 13: 9780007162536
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover (no jacket) in very good condition. First UK edition. Light marks and wear to the boards and spine. Pages are clean; text is clear. CM. Used.
Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0007285183 ISBN 13: 9780007285181
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. First edition. Light edgewear to the jacket. Pages are clean; all text is clear. CM. Used.
Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007301332 ISBN 13: 9780007301331
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Numbers written in felt tip pen on the jacket spine head. Pages are clean; all text is clear. CM. Used.
Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Light shelfwear to the jacket. Page block is lightly tanned. Pages are clean; text is clear. CM. Used.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0007561180 ISBN 13: 9780007561186
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 220pp. The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder chronicles a pilgrimage to Rome made by three young men with a secret burden. But they will meet with temptation along the way? 'John the Pupil' is a medieval road movie, Umberto Eco seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarrantino, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. As well as having to fight off ambushes from thieves hungry for the thing of power they are carrying, the holy trio are tried and tempted by all sorts of sins ambition, pride, lust, and by the sheer hell and heaven of medieval life. Erudite and earthy, horrifying, comic, humane, David Flusfeder's extraordinary novel reveals to the reader a world very different and all too like the one we live in now.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0007591926 ISBN 13: 9780007591923
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, remains of old sticky label to front jacket. Not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 369pp, illustrated endpapers. Two corpses. A country on the edge of a political precipice. A conspiracy so bold it would make Machiavelli wince. Andrew Marr¿s debut novel imagines what really might be going on behind the door of 10 Downing Street. When a young investigative reporter is found dead on the streets of London few people notice. But when another body, minus its head and hands, is washed up on the banks of the Thames, its grisly condition arouses a little more interest. There appears to be no connection between the two dead men. But, unsuspected by the electorate, there is a shocking and dangerous secret at the very heart of government. While the United Kingdom approaches a crucial and delicately balanced referendum on Europe, a group of ruthlessly determined individuals will stop at nothing, including murder, to prevent the truth from getting out. Andrew Marr's first novel is a gleefully twisted spin through the corridors of power. Making full use of his unrivalled inside knowledge of the British political scene, Marr has threaded his wickedly clever thriller with a distinctive strand.
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Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 000728988X ISBN 13: 9780007289882
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of fantastic 'map' jacket, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£16.99), previous owner's inscription to half title page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 343pp, decorative endpapers. 16 year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children, he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past. Adam sets out on a quest to find Karl, but all he has to guide him are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colourful, dangerous capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother.
Published by London : Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2004
ISBN 10: 0007153589 ISBN 13: 9780007153589
Language: English
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketReprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [119] p ; 20 cm. Subjects; Essays. Living alone. American essays 20th century Collections. Authors, American 20th century. 1 Kg.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 0007479433 ISBN 13: 9780007479436
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. 380pp, illustrated. In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River. But before they left a hole was dug as deep as a man, and as wide as a bedroom, in which was stowed the family heirlooms. The longer I looked at that red chrysanthemum plate, the more I wanted to touch it, feel its weight, and run my fingers over its edge, which, like its country's and my family's history, was anything but smooth. 1938. The Japanese army were fast approaching Xingang, the Yangtze River hometown of Huan Hsu's great great grandfather Liu. Along with his five granddaughters, Liu prepares to flee. Before they leave, they dig a hole and fill it to the brim with family heirlooms. Amongst their antique furniture, jade and scrolls, was Liu's vast collection of prized antique porcelain. A decades long flight across war torn China splintered the family over thousands of miles. Grandfather Liu's treasure remained buried along with a time that no one wished to speak of. And no one returned to find it, until now. Huan Hsu, a journalist raised in America and armed only with curiosity, returned to China many years later. Wanting to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself, Hsu set out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally completed his family¿s long march back home. Melding memoir and travelogue with social and political history, 'The Porcelain Thief' is an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the bloody, tragic and largely forgotten events that defined Chinese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A fascinating book.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 000718204X ISBN 13: 9780007182046
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Sarah Christie (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear and two short closed tears to top of jacket, page 348 slightly crumpled, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 362pp. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman, a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer, whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley¿s most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel¿s narrators, Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too, and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0007270720 ISBN 13: 9780007270729
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, remains of old charity sticker to front jacket, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 278pp, decorated endpapers, illustrated. J. G. Ballard's (1930-2009) autobiography. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory book charts the course of his astonishing life.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1841155667 ISBN 13: 9781841155661
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£12.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 178pp. Christopher Ross, philosopher and traveller, decided to cease his journeyings and go underground, quite literally. Seeking an antidote to incurable restlessness he chose to work for a year as a Station Assistant on Platform 6 (northbound Victoria Line) at Oxford Circus Station. After Training School, where he is taught how not to electrocute himself and always to look in the eye a member of the public as they are assaulting you, he faces up to his new duties with a mixture of curiosity and foreboding. What, exactly, will he find deep under the surface of London? Signed by Author(s).
Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. First edition, first printing. Slight fading and one or two minor bumps to the lower board edges. The page block is tanned. Pages are clean; text is clear. CM. Used.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007509855 ISBN 13: 9780007509850
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket after a painting by Woody Guthrie (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 237pp. Newly discovered, and with an introduction by Johnny Depp, this is legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie's (1912-67), only finished novel, a compelling portrait of two hardscrabble farmers struggling during the Dust Bowl. Filled with the homespun lyricism that made Guthrie's songs unforgettable, this is the story of an ordinary couple's dream of a better life in a corrupt world. Living in a precarious wooden shack, Texan farmers Tike and Ella May yearn for a sturdy house to protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a government pamphlet, Tike knows how to build a simple adobe dwelling from the land itself, a house of earth. But while the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs, their dream remains painfully out of reach. A rural tale of progressive activism, HOUSE OF EARTH is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape. Combining the moral urgency and narrative drive of John Steinbeck with the erotic frankness of D.H. Lawrence, it is a powerful tale of America from a great artist.
Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0007269064 ISBN 13: 9780007269068
Language: English
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Very faint stains on the page block head and face. Pages are clean; text is clear. CM. Signed by Author. Used.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0008130779 ISBN 13: 9780008130770
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by gray318 (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 258pp, illustrated. 'A Life Discarded' is a biographical detective story. In 2001, 148 tattered and mould covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers / Fourth Estate, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007165447 ISBN 13: 9780007165445
Language: English
Seller: Antiquariat Fuchseck, Gammelshausen, Germany
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Befriedigend. Dust Jacket Condition: Leichtere Gebrauchsspuren. 2006. 292 Seiten. Im Kopfschnitt ein schwacher Fleck, der Schutzumschlag etwas bestoßen. Auf dem Titelblatt von der Autorin signiert. --- In englischer Sprache. Signatur des Verfassers.
Published by Fourth Estate (HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007318510 ISBN 13: 9780007318513
Language: English
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good - sl Wear. The author of The Hours.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 0007532768 ISBN 13: 9780007532766
Language: English
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket by Jonathan Pelham (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN RED INK, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top of spine, not price clipped (£20.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 563pp. Young Pip Tyler doesn¿t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she¿s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she¿s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother, her only family, is hazardous. But she doesn¿t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world, including, Pip hopes the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn¿t understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Jonathan Franzen's Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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First edition hard back binding in publisher's original bottle green paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, publisher's patterned end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 292 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the Author to the title page 'Salley Vickers'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0007165447 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.
Published by Fourth Estate /harperCollins Publishers, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0007171633 ISBN 13: 9780007171637
Language: English
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
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Add to basketBlue Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition First Printing. Author, as a 16 year old boy, signed up with the Hudson Bay Company for five years as an apprentice fur trader. Posting - Baffin Island, 1930 ! This is his story. 392 pp. Decorative ep's. Book has tiny bump to top corners, ow , is as new. Unclipped (£ 16.99) DJ has very slight edge/shelf wear. Bookseller's Inventory # 154569.
Published by Fourth Estate Ltd / HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0007463243 ISBN 13: 9780007463244
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket photo by R. A. Kearton, endpapers after the Hubble deep field image (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some edge wear and slight fraying to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, some faint spotting to page fore edges, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 149pp. 'Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies. Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying. Colin can't remember and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything, where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve if he wants to find his sister. And the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, and there will be only winter, wanderers and moon. An astonishing and disturbing exploration of the nature of memory, trauma and loss. A future classic, now quite scarce.
Published by Fourth Estate (An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007182147 ISBN 13: 9780007182145
Language: English
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a minor skew to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends, and a touch of shelfwear to the cover edges and corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has light bumps to the spine ends, and slighter wear to the corners. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.
Published by Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Publishers, London,, 2014
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
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Add to basketFirst edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling, black endpapers and a black ribbon; 244pp. Very minor wear; remainder mark to the text block bottom edge. Near fine in like dustwrapper. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., London,, 2007
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
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Add to basketReprint. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titles and decorations; 260pp. Minor wear to the dustwrapper. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Fourth Estate a division of HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2012
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
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Add to basketHb. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. Clean grey cloth on boards with black titles. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 149p Dj: clean jacket. Very faint thin sunning to some of the top and bottom edges.
Published by Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Publishers, London,, 2002
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
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Add to basketFirst Australian edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine-titling; 375pp. (xii + 363pp.). Previous owner's bookplate (covering a previous ink inscription) to front free endpaper; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title page; text block and page edges toned; board edges lightly rubbed and spine extremities lightly softened. Dustwrapper lightly worn. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins Publishers, Hammersmith, London, England, 2011
ISBN 10: 000743913X ISBN 13: 9780007439133
Language: English
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. May contain remainder marks. Discount Book.