A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
by Nin, Anais
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:British Book Center, (1954). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. New York:British Book Center. (1954). 1st American edition, stated. 136pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards with light wear to edges of boards and spine ends. Internally, end-pages are age toned with some offset from dust jacket flaps. Pages clean with no previous owners marks or signatures found. The plain white dust jacket with title printed on front panel and spine, is soiled and shelfworn at edges, with several chips and tears to edges and seams.
Synopsis
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23566
- Title
- A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
- Author
- Nin, Anais
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:British Book Center
- Date Published
- (1954)
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; ANAIS NIN
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.