- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Grimes Hill Books (PBFA), Wythall, United KingdomGrimes Hill Books (PBFA)
AbeBooks seller since June 13, 2016
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 40.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes, MacGibbon & Kee, 1960, First Edition, Seventh Impression Adapted for film starring David Bowie, who also sang the title song, this is the second novel in the author's "London Trilogy", coming after "City Of Spades" and before "Mr Love and Justice". Each book is self-contained with no shared charcters. The book is in fine condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. There is minimal shelf wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine. The end papers and pages are free from tears and inscriptions. There is a small university stamp to the front end paper and the title page. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in very good condition with loss to all the corners, loss to the top edge of the front cover, crease marks and small nicks to the top edge of the spine, loss and a crease mark to the bottom edge of the spine, nibbling to the top edge of the back cover and a darkened back cover. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.…
Seller Inventory # 04665
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Absolute Beginners
- Author
- Colin MacInnes
- Publisher
- MacGibbon & Kee, United Kingdom
- Publication year
- 1960
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 5th or later Printing
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Seller catalogs
- Modern Fiction First
Grimes Hill Books (PBFA)
Wythall, United Kingdom
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