A Dry Spell
by Moloney, Susie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0747219044
- ISBN 13
- 9780747219040
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Headline. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with full number line. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. DJ artwork by Richard Haughton. ; 448 pages; For the last four years the town of Goodland has been striken by drought. And for the last two years its bank manager, Karen Grange, has been foreclosing on her clients - farmers, grainmerchants, shopkeepers, people who once waved a friendly hello in the streets now grit their teeth to give her the time of day. So after seeing a television interview with a man from Kansas who claims he can make it rain, Karen writes to him in a desperate attempt to help the town. A year later Tom the 'rainmaker' arrives in Goodland... .
Synopsis
Susie Moloney was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and has lived with her family on Ontario's Manitoulin Island since 1990. Her first novel was Bastion Falls.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30601
- Title
- A Dry Spell
- Author
- Moloney, Susie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0747219044
- ISBN 13
- 9780747219040
- Publisher
- Headline
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Shelf Wear
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Number Line
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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