ackroyd peter text (3 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 16 pp. of b-w & 24 pp. of full-color illustrations, plus 73 illustrations in text. Ilustrador. 1st American Edition. MASTERPIECE: MARVELOUS: DEEPLY MOVING: RADIANT DETAIL: IMPECCABLE SCHOLARSHIP: INTUITIVE: SUBLIME: SPELLBINDING: FASCINATING: GRIPPINGLY PERCEPTIVE: SUPERB: NEW Stated First American Edition hardcover (Orig. April 1996) First Printing: NEW evocative color-illustrated mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $35.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, NEW cover w/ library-durable black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.00" onto front panel & back panels covered w/ SUPERB burnt-orange paper & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan & yellow-crimson cloth banding at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT paper * 399 pp, 6.76" x 9.50" x 1.54", 0.93 kg * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this SUPERB book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at below-cost rates posted & on-request.

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Author's inscription to title page: "Peter Ackroyd - to Howard, with love. 20 June, 1976". Pencilled note to front endpaper with light foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, illustrated by Helen Saunders, spine-faded, with shelf-soil, tanning to extremities, and foxing to verso; Very Good. The Whitbread Award-winning author's uncommon second book. [84728]. Signed.