A Marriage Under The Terror
by Wentworth, Patricia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Andrew Melrose. Poor with no dust jacket. (1926). Hardcover. Cloth torn along entire length of rear joint, so that the entire spine cloth is loose. Hinges broken. Needs rebinding. Front free endpaper missing. Pencil scribbles on half-title page and title page. Previous owner's rubber stamps. A poor copy.; 1926 reprint (originally published in 1910). [4], 382 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Illustrated cloth boards. Page dimensions: 186mm x 120mm. "It was high noon on a mid-August morning of the tear 1792, but Jeanne, the waiting-maid, had only just set the coffee down on a small table within the ruelle of Mme de Montargis' magnificent bed." - the opening sentence. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8302
- Title
- A Marriage Under The Terror
- Author
- Wentworth, Patricia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Andrew Melrose
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1926)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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