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Heart of a Stranger
by Laurence, Margaret
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 077104710X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771047107
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. 221pp. Octavo. Maroon and black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light bumping and fading to ends of spine and bottom corners of boards. Contemporary signature from previous owner on front free endpaper. Clean text block with only a small stain to the top edge of the title page. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Dust jacket is lightly worn and rubbed, especially around edges and spine. A lovely copy. very good Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. A collection of insightful personal essays by the famous Canadian author. 1976
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131835
- Title
- Heart of a Stranger
- Author
- Laurence, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 077104710X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771047107
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction|Canadian Lit.|Canadian Literature|Laurence, Margaret|Margaret Laurence
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Aquila Books
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Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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