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Whittaker's Wife
de Harry Bloom
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1962. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; slight shelfwear to head board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; wear and missing small pieces at head and upper tips; light toning to spin and top edge of DJ; light soiling to rear panel. Yellow paper over boards and spine with orange lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 250 pp 8vo. Written by a Cape Town lawyer, this novel is set in Central Africa featuring a woman, Lavinia Whittaker, a woman of ruthless sophistication set against her ranching partner, Joe Latham, a battle royal for power ensues. The climax of the story is a lion hunt in which the emotions of the hunting party- at first civilized and controlled- are transformed and intensified by the perilous realities of the hunt itself. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 016471
- Título
- Whittaker's Wife
- Autor
- Harry Bloom
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Book Club Edition
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1962
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- lion hunt, hunting, African lion hunt, rifles, weapons, jungle animals, Central Africa, Rhodesia, romance, violence, Adventure fiction, African novel, big game hunters, Harry Bloom, Johannesburg South Africa
- Catálogos del vendedor
- African Matters;
Términos de venta
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
Sobre Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
