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The Book of Eve
by Beresford-Howe, Constance
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0316091405
- ISBN 13
- 9780316091404
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Boston, MA, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 170pp. Bright yellow endpapers. Prev owner name inked neatly on ffep. Orange boards with yellow lettering on spine and blindstamp of publisher logo bottom front corner. No edgewear to covers, bumping to head and tail. Illustrated orange DJ clean, showing shallow chipping to top back edge and corner. Heavy sunning to spine. DJ preserved in archival cover. Small octavo. Adapted for stage by Larry Fineberg, The Book of Eve premiered at the Stratford Festival on 14 July 1976.
Synopsis
Constance Beresford-Howe was born in Montreal. Her first novel, The Unreasoning Heart, was published while she was still a student. Since then, she has written eight others, including A Population of One, The Marriage Bed, Prospero’s Daughter , and Night Studies . She now divides her time between Canada and England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044208
- Title
- The Book of Eve
- Author
- Beresford-Howe, Constance
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316091405
- ISBN 13
- 9780316091404
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA, USA
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Beresford-Howe, Constance, 1922-2016. NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Literature;
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About the Seller
Post Horizon Booksellers
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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