Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
THE BIRDS OF THE AIR.
by Ellis, Alice Thomas (pseudonym of Anna Haycraft, 1932-2005)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket (one short closed tear on back cover.)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 067016819X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670168194
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:: Viking,, (1981.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (one short closed tear on back cover.). First US printing. Highly praised second novel by this English writer who blends comedy with serious concerns - Auberon Waugh praised it with the comment 'I rather suspect it may be a masterpiece.' Ellis, the wife of the publisher Colin Haycraft, and the fiction editor at Duckworth, was both a true Bohemian and a fiercely devout Catholic. 159 pp
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18339
- Title
- THE BIRDS OF THE AIR.
- Author
- Ellis, Alice Thomas (pseudonym of Anna Haycraft, 1932-2005)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket (one short closed tear on back cover.)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067016819X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670168194
- Publisher
- Viking,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1981.)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Authors;
Terms of Sale
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Free media mail shipping in US included; priority is $7.50 and international at cost. Books are packed carefully, shipped promptly with delivery confirmation and insurance at our expense. It is important for our customers to be totally satisfied with their purchase and guarantee all of our books to be as described. Want lists welcomed.
About the Seller
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Ione, California
About Bookfever.com, IOBA
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...