A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt (First Edition)
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A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt (First Edition)
$950.00 USD
A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt (First Edition)
Authors: Jack McDevitt
Location: London and Boston
Publisher: Kinnell
Date: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Features: Three-Quarter Leather. First Trade Hardcover Edition. One-of-a-kind. Unique ""founder's copy"" of first trade hardcover edition (preceded in hardcover only by an American book-club edition), and first British edition. (The statement of printing on the copyright page is incorrect, the British hardcover edition precedes the British paperback edition.) Bound-up from the first sheets supplied to the publisher from the printer. This copy was specially bound for the founder of Kinnell Publications Limited, in three-quarter tan Morocco (goat skin) with gold lettering on a red Morocco lettering-piece, gold stamping, raised bands, and top and fore-edge gilt. This copy, and this copy only, has a colophon. This copy then is the first copy of the first trade hardcover edition and the first copy of the first British edition, in a unique and handsome binding. With a signed letter of provenance from Kinnell's founder A.E. Cunningham.
Book Condition: Fine: A beautiful unread copy.
ISBN: 1-870532090
HCS11469-1
Authors: Jack McDevitt
Location: London and Boston
Publisher: Kinnell
Date: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Features: Three-Quarter Leather. First Trade Hardcover Edition. One-of-a-kind. Unique ""founder's copy"" of first trade hardcover edition (preceded in hardcover only by an American book-club edition), and first British edition. (The statement of printing on the copyright page is incorrect, the British hardcover edition precedes the British paperback edition.) Bound-up from the first sheets supplied to the publisher from the printer. This copy was specially bound for the founder of Kinnell Publications Limited, in three-quarter tan Morocco (goat skin) with gold lettering on a red Morocco lettering-piece, gold stamping, raised bands, and top and fore-edge gilt. This copy, and this copy only, has a colophon. This copy then is the first copy of the first trade hardcover edition and the first copy of the first British edition, in a unique and handsome binding. With a signed letter of provenance from Kinnell's founder A.E. Cunningham.
Book Condition: Fine: A beautiful unread copy.
ISBN: 1-870532090
HCS11469-1