Camomile Lawn, The
by Wesley, Mary
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0552991260
- ISBN 13
- 9780552991261
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Black Swan. Very Good. 1986. Paperback. 0552991260 . Trade Paperback with a tight binding and a clean, unmarked text. There is cover scuffing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them, it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost innocence, as well as fears of the coming war around the corner." ; 7.95 X 5.12 X 0.94 inches; 339 pages .
Synopsis
Mary Wesley was born in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics, and during the war, she worked in the War Office. She published her first novel, Jumping the Queue at the age of seventy. It was followed by nine more. Mary Wesley died in 2002.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19209
- Title
- Camomile Lawn, The
- Author
- Wesley, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0552991260
- ISBN 13
- 9780552991261
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0552991260, World War, 1939-1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military; War;
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- 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....