Morning at Jalna
by DE LA ROCHE, Mazo
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1960. First American Edition. First Printing. White Oak Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); light green cloth covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket by Charles Lofgren; 298pp. Spine ends are gently pushed; minor offsetting on free front endpaper; Near Fine. The dustjacket is price-clipped with a small hole in DJ flap from price sticker removal; tiny tear upper front panel; minor soil lower rear panel; Very Good+.
First book in the "Whiteoak Saga"- "During the Civil War there was excitiment everyehere in America, even at Jalna, the estate of the Whiteoaks in Canada...The visitors, with their negro servants, their clandestine callers and Lucy sinclair's flirtatious ways, create confusion in Jalna's smoothly running household...Among the new characters are the children's kind and cynical tutor Lucius Madigan; the shrewed half-breed, Titus Sharrow- "Tite"- who has acquired half an education; and Tites master, Willmott..." (from the dustjacket).
First book in the "Whiteoak Saga"- "During the Civil War there was excitiment everyehere in America, even at Jalna, the estate of the Whiteoaks in Canada...The visitors, with their negro servants, their clandestine callers and Lucy sinclair's flirtatious ways, create confusion in Jalna's smoothly running household...Among the new characters are the children's kind and cynical tutor Lucius Madigan; the shrewed half-breed, Titus Sharrow- "Tite"- who has acquired half an education; and Tites master, Willmott..." (from the dustjacket).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53897
- Title
- Morning at Jalna
- Author
- DE LA ROCHE, Mazo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; The South; Canada; African-Americana;
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Winchester, Virginia
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