Asylum for the Queen.
by Jordan, Mildred
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum binding; the top edge tint is dark blue; the endpapers show some age toning; a Very Good book, with
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A Knopf, 1948.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum binding; the top edge tint is dark blue; the endpapers show some age toning; a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by John Alan Maxwell. The publisher's blurb reads: ''This novel of conflicting loyalties is based on an exciting, mysterious, and still unsolved episode in French-American history. The time is that of the French Revolution, the story that of a group of passionately loyal aristocrats who plot to rescue Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and the Dauphin, their son, from imprisonment in Paris, and to bring them to a Pennsylvania colony, fittingly name Asylum, until they can return to France in triumph''.
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- Seller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 068296
- Title
- Asylum for the Queen.
- Author
- Jordan, Mildred
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum binding; the top edge tint is dark blue; the endpapers show some age toning; a Very Good book, with
- Edition
- Book Club Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1948.
- Pages
- 409 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (8.5 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
The Bookworm
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
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Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
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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...
- Good+
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- Jacket
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- Blurb
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