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Quail in Aspic; The Life Story of Count Charles Korsetz as tape recorded by Cecil Beaton
by Beaton, Cecil
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is in Near Fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners and a whisper of fading to orange cloth boards. Price-clipped dust jacket has very minor wear and a small chip or two at bottom of spine. Photo illustrations. 8vo. 172 pp. In protective Mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95343
- Title
- Quail in Aspic; The Life Story of Count Charles Korsetz as tape recorded by Cecil Beaton
- Author
- Beaton, Cecil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- British humor writers; humorists; Ilsa Maxwell
Terms of Sale
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Returnable if not as described, with prior notice, within 30 days. We take care packaging the books you order and will gift wrap on request.
About the Seller
Warwick Books
Biblio member since 2004
South Pasadena, California
About Warwick Books
We are an Internet-only book business. We carry hard-to-find books in many categories including art, photography, military history, cookbooks, children's books, fiction, needlework, Americana, popular culture, and signed first editions. Warwick Books is a member of IOBA, the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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