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Buy this book on-line BANVILLE**, JOHN: : Ghosts. ** [An Uncorrected Bound Proof,1st edn.]LONDON.MARTIN SECKER & WARBURG LTD.1997. ISBN 0436199912.
UK,small 8vo wraps,Uncorrected Bound Proof,1st edn. [Often of limited availability the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors,proof-readers and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,matt,author colour portrait painting illustrated upper wrap,with author's capitalised,brown-lettered name and other black-lettered title to front cover,a matt,black spine/backstrip with capitalised,red-lettered author name and other white-lettered title,rear cover with white-lettered synopsis and publisher's promotion's information and 2 critics' white+red lettered reviews,and publisher's white-lettered ISBN,publication date and price.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright,crisp and clean with no ageing/toning nor any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - seems unread.UK,small 8vo wraps,Uncorrected Bound Proof,1st edn,3-244pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 but no chapter numeration; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram,and individual Pts separator pages.
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Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 25+ year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral paperback Proof.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for it’s brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of any other or age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a paperback issue.
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