Adonis and The Alphabet
by Aldous Huxley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, UK, 1956. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Prior seller's sticker. Early/rear pages foxed and browned, sporadic foxing to text. Page block edges very browned. Edgewear including small open tears, browning and minor rubbing to jacket. Jacket spine faded/discoloured. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Dust Jacket price-clipped..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36914
- Title
- Adonis and The Alphabet
- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Literary Writings & The World of Books; Aldous Huxley Adonis and The Alphabet
Terms of Sale
Shiny Owl Books
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About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
Biblio member since 2006
Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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