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SIBIRIL, ALAIN & MONIQUE, and JAMES, TREVOR: : Rendezvous in Princetown - Bicentenary 1809-2009 [English and French Edition] Rendez-Vous à Princetown - Bicentenaire 1809-2009.[SIGNED by all 3 authors.]

UK.CREDITON,DEVON.HEDGEROW PRINT,2009.

ISBN 9781898964902.

UK,slim 8vo,(Tête-bêche) wraps,triple SIGNED, s/back Original 1st edn.[Softback/ paperback Original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but pb/ softback Originals are published prior to any other format.'Tête-bêche',from the French, meaning 'head-to-tail' - half of the book in one language and the other half can be flipped/ turned upside down for the other language to be read.] NMINT.No owner inscrptn but SIGNED+ dedicated by all 3 authors - the French couple with a black inked inscrptn on title page - dedication to a named person and with a lengthy,explanatory inscription with location, date and signature in French to the French language version and a blue ink inscrptn by British author: 'With Best Wishes Trevor James' to title page of English text version and no price removal to cover - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered, glossy,colour photographic illustrated cover with black lettering in respective languages; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK, slim 8vo (tete-beche) wraps,p/back original, triple author SIGNED,1st edn,bi-lingual text: English text 1-32pp [paginated] includes b/w facsimile reproduction archive illustrations and contemporary colour photographs; French text 1-68pp with identical illustrations but bi-lingual captioned extra colour photographs of the commemoration service/event within; plus [unpaginated] separate English+French language title pages with a dedication to their respective versos. A publication in honour of the Franco-British event commemorating and remembering the foreign prisoners of war held near Dartmouth (UK) on prison-ships and then marched to Dartmoor Prison,Princetown,during the Napoleonic period and includes photographs of the bicentenary commemorations. **Tête-bêche,from the French,meaning 'head-to-tail' is usually where two short novels,novellas or short-story collections,generally by different authors,are printed together,but upside down and back-to-back,so you read one - then flip the book over to start reading the other. Dating back to the 19thC the 'tête-bêche',a close relative of the 'dos-à-dos' binding,a complicated binding procedure that sees two books back to back but opening in different directions,goes back even earlier,and was common for religious texts.** Most people's association with 'head-to-tail' books is probably the US,Ace Doubles - sci-fi p/backs that were prevalent from the 1950s to the 1970s.The American publisher turned out a mixture of hundreds of science fiction,western and thriller novels in the tête-bêche format, which are highly collectible today.[A wonderful gallery of covers and content listings can be accessed on the Ace Doubles Image Library website.] Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim 8vo (Tête-bêche) wraps, triple SIGNED,1st edn.
3 authors' signatures.

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