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Twilight on the Floods
by Steen, Marguerite
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: mild shelfwear to boards and corners, marker on half title page, creasing on a few pages in text block, text clean, b/fair: corner and edge wear, clipped, sunned spine
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday and Company, 1949. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear to boards and corners, marker on half title page, creasing on a few pages in text block, text clean, binding tight./fair: corner and edge wear, clipped, sunned spine. 8vo 728pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "Working again on a broad, rich canvas, Marguerite Steen continues her powerful saga of the remarkable Flood family against the exciting, colorful background of Bristol, England, and the Gold Coast of Africa at the turn of the century." #00909.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 826
- Title
- Twilight on the Floods
- Author
- Steen, Marguerite
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: mild shelfwear to boards and corners, marker on half title page, creasing on a few pages in text block, text clean, b
- Jacket Condition
- fair: corner and edge wear, clipped, sunned spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- fiction, first edition, historical fiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
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