The Birds Fall Down
by West, Rebecca
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
1st Edition. Hardcover with unclipped jacket light wear at top and bottom of spine panel . Dust jacket is now protected with a mylar cover. Light rubbing to Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. First book club edition.
Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.
Rebecca West's gripping psychological mystery—part thriller, part historical novel—The Birds Fall Down takes readers inside the intrigue of revolutionaries preparing to overthrow an empire.
During early revolutionary stirrings in Russia, after an unexpected turn of events, Laura Rowan, the coddled granddaughter of an exiled British nobleman, becomes her grandfather's sole companion on a fateful train ride. In France, a young revolutionary approaches Laura and her grandfather with information that will turn her world upside down, and their travels become a thrilling journey into the heart of the struggle against Tsarist Russia.
In this suspenseful novel, West brings to life a battle between entitled imperials and the passionate, savvy communist revolutionaries who dare to face them
.
Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.
Rebecca West's gripping psychological mystery—part thriller, part historical novel—The Birds Fall Down takes readers inside the intrigue of revolutionaries preparing to overthrow an empire.
During early revolutionary stirrings in Russia, after an unexpected turn of events, Laura Rowan, the coddled granddaughter of an exiled British nobleman, becomes her grandfather's sole companion on a fateful train ride. In France, a young revolutionary approaches Laura and her grandfather with information that will turn her world upside down, and their travels become a thrilling journey into the heart of the struggle against Tsarist Russia.
In this suspenseful novel, West brings to life a battle between entitled imperials and the passionate, savvy communist revolutionaries who dare to face them
.
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Details
- Seller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 241
- Title
- The Birds Fall Down
- Author
- West, Rebecca
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 435 pp.
- Size
- 8 vo
- Weight
- 1.98 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition; Fiction;
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Lansdowne Books
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Port Fairy, Victoria
About Lansdowne Books
Lansdowne Books is an independent online store specialising in Antiquarian and Quality Secondhand books. We are based in regional Victoria and offer our collection from around the world. It is possible to collect items from Port Fairy, Victoria Australia.
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