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Mrs. Miniver
de STRUTHER, Jan
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Good+
- Librería
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Chatto & Windus, 1939. Quarter cloth, paper boards. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Quarter pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt in blue title panel, patterned paper boards. Top edge pink (faded), bottom untrimmed. Lean to spine, heavy knocks to bottom corners, especially bottom board. Edges foxed. Signed and dated (18.11.39) by Struther in blue ink to title page, endpapers and prelims foxed, occasional larger fox spots to margins, else, clean and tight. In supplied grey slip case, publisher's pink paper blurb and price label pasted to one side: split at top edge, rubbed and bruised, gently soiled. Good-only/ good-only A robust copy of the first edition of Struther's popular creation, "an ordinary sort of woman who leads an ordinary sort of life", collected from her Times columns and, unusually, signed in the year of publication. Peter Fleming commissioned Struther to write about an ordinary woman "rather like yourself," columns which were first collected as a book by Chatto and Windus, followed a year later by Harcourt Brace's American edition, with Struther undertaking a successful lecture tour. While the war features only glancingly in this collection � one chapter is titled 'Gas masks' � Mrs Miniver was famously transmuted by Hollywood into a patriotic 1942 Oscar-winning feature film.
Sinopsis
As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book's orginal publication in the U.S., features a new introduction by Greer Garson, who won the Academy Award as best actress for her role as Mrs. Miniver.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2759
- Título
- Mrs. Miniver
- Autor
- STRUTHER, Jan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Quarter cloth, paper boards
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1939
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Firsts; Signed & Association Copies;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Quair Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Sobre Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
