Whittaker's Wife
por Harry Bloom
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Good
- Livreiro
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
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; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; wear and missing pieces at head, tail, and tips; toning to spine; chippng and missing small pieces along top of the DJ. 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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 016467
- Título
- Whittaker's Wife
- Autor
- Harry Bloom
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- Book Club Edition
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Local de publicação
- New York, NY
- Data de publicação
- 1962
- Dimensão
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- 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 de livreiros
- African Matters;
Termos da venda
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Sobre o Vendedor
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Membro 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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Brodart
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...