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The Behaviour of Moths
by Adams, Poppy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 1844084868
- ISBN 13
- 9781844084869
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: Virago* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Patterned and textual dust wrapper with metallic highlights. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 305 pp. text. viii pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. She has been selling off the family furniture over the years, gradually shutting off each wing of the house and retreating into the precise routines and isolation that define her days. Only the attic remains untouched.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition 1st. impression, with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4074
- Title
- The Behaviour of Moths
- Author
- Adams, Poppy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifth Edition, 1st. Imp..
- ISBN 10
- 1844084868
- ISBN 13
- 9781844084869
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 320
- Date Published
- 2008-05-01
- Keywords
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern fiction, Fiction / General, Fiction, General, General & Literary Fiction
- Size
- 14.7 x 22.5 x 3.4 cm
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