The shelf · Gabriel's Lament
First edition
Gabriel's Lament
Paul Bailey
Viking Penguin, 1987. 1st (american) edition, first printing.
$25One copy · this copy
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- Book
- Near Fine
- Jacket
- VG+
- Jacket note
- The dust jacket grades VG+.
- Our ref
- RCB-d6da89845481
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-d6da89845481 · 8 photographs of this copy
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Copyright page states 'First American Edition / Published in 1987'
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Copyright Paul Bailey 1986; this is the US issue of a 1986 UK title
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No number line and no later-printing statement on copyright page
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Jacket priced $17.95 (FPT>$17.95), not a book club
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True first is the UK Jonathan Cape 1986 edition
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
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small nick/wear at head of spine, dust jacket
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light rubbing to jacket extremities and corners
This copy
First edition
What a true first shows: Jonathan Cape, London, 1986, cloth in jacket
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.