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The Last of the Wine
by Renault, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black and white, salmon topstain. First edition. With bookplate of Mary Lou Lender Daves, also known as actress Mary Lawrence, wife of producer Delmer Daves. Mild foxing to the textblock edge. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, lightly toned with a few wormholes, a tear to rear panel, and almond-sized chip to heel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43115
- Title
- The Last of the Wine
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1956
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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