The Ballad of Peckham Rye
by Muriel Spark
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1960. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1960. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],201pp. Jacket rather worn at extremities with neat archival tape repair to verso, spine cocked, cloth faded at margins, front hinge a bit loose but holding, else a Good to Very Good copy overall.
Early novel by the Scottish author and poet, describing the antics of Scottish migrant Dougal Douglas as he entwines himself in the lives of the inhabitants of the London working-class neighborhood Peckham Rye.
Early novel by the Scottish author and poet, describing the antics of Scottish migrant Dougal Douglas as he entwines himself in the lives of the inhabitants of the London working-class neighborhood Peckham Rye.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12201
- Title
- The Ballad of Peckham Rye
- Author
- Muriel Spark
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...