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The Praise Singer
de Renault, Mary
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394502736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502731
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York and Toronto: Pantheon/Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Pantheon/Random House, 1978, First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. A novel of ancient Greece and the life of Simonides, who lived in 6th century Greece during the time of the Persian Wars and a time of great flowering of the arts. The book is bound in black cloth gilt stamped, quite clean and unmarked with a whisper of wear to corners; tight, solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. Unclipped dust jacket is scuffed at spine ends and upper corner, edges rubbed. 290 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1978, Pantheon/Random House, New York and Toronto.
Sinopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 026887
- Título
- The Praise Singer
- Autor
- Renault, Mary
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394502736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502731
- Editorial
- Pantheon/Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York and Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1978
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Palabras clave
- HISTORICAL FICTION GREECE, ANCIENT BARD SIMONIDES PERSIAN WARS HISTORY
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
