The Beken File
by Keith Beken
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0906781027
- ISBN 13
- 9780906781029
- Seller
-
Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Channel Press, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ISBN 0906781027. First edition and printing. Signed by the author. In near fine mid blue cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very tight, square and clean; ends of back strip a little bumped.White, clean end papers. Author's name on front fee end paper, with 'Cowes '86'. Unmarked cut edges. The text block is very tightly bound, straight and not tanned, foxed or marked, with bright colour and b/w plates and some figures. In near fine condition. In fine glossy dust jacket with colour photo to front of sailing boats and multi coloured titles. Not price clipped. An excellent copy with little signs of use.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clevedon Community Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52278
- Title
- The Beken File
- Author
- Keith Beken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0906781027
- ISBN 13
- 9780906781029
- Publisher
- Channel Press
- Place of Publication
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 191
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Keywords
- SH
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About the Seller
Clevedon Community Bookshop
Biblio member since 2012
Clevedon, Somerset
About Clevedon Community Bookshop
Clevedon Community Bookshop, co-operatively owned, opened on 31 December 2011 and now has a general stock of approximately 20,000 books. Our bookshop in Copse Road is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00am to 4.00pm. The co-operative comprises just over 600 members from around the world and was set up to stop the only second-hand bookshop in our town from closing. The benefit of being a member/shareholder is only social: no-one benefits financially. All profits are used to improve the bookshop and its stock, and, through events, to contribute to the literacy and literary profile of our town. The Bookshop Manager has fifteen years' experience in second-hand bookselling. Email us if you would like to join our co-operative and thus jointly own our bookshop with us.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
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- Fine
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