Climbing the Fish's Tail
by Noyce, Wilfrid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardback. Dust jacket lightly age-toned, a number of small creases and split along edges, lightly stained, front flap clipped; Blue cloth boards clean and sharp, no significant wear, gilt lettering bright; Edges lightly age-toned and a touch dusty, pages otherwise clean with no ownership marks or annotation, B&W plates; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy with some signs of age. ; 5.4 x 8"; 150 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50522
- Title
- Climbing the Fish's Tail
- Author
- Noyce, Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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