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The Last Castle.
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0934438358
- ISBN 13
- 9780934438353
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
San Francisco; Underwood/Miller, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 115, [1]. Printed with decorative border to leaves. Illustrated by Alicia Austin; 4 colour plates including frontispiece, plus numerous line drawings throughout text. Publishers' purple cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, and patterned endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also illustrated by Austin. Corners and spine tips a little rubbed; light foxing to plates otherwise clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly creased top edge, and lightly foxed to flaps. A very good copy in like jacket. Originally published in April 1966 by Galaxy, this is the first hardcover edition, with new illustrations. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11776
- Title
- The Last Castle.
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0934438358
- ISBN 13
- 9780934438353
- Publisher
- San Francisco; Underwood/Miller, 1980.
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Spine
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