Number One
by Passos, John Dos
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd, Sydney, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 218 pp., last 6 blank. Orange coloured boards with black writing on the front panel and backstrip. First Australian edition of one of America's premier writers of the middle 20th century. The dust jacket has a pair of tears of top of the rear panel with associated creasing, and a half inch tear and some chipping to the bottom edge of the same. Apart from age toning of the page edges, there is no damage to the book. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; America; Inventory No: 0261459. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0261459
- Title
- Number One
- Author
- Passos, John Dos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Literature, American Writer, 20th Century Writer Literature & Literary; America; Unbranded Passos, John Dos Number One
- Bookseller catalogs
- America;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...