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Whittaker's Wife
by Harry Bloom
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€9.32€6.53
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1962. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; wear and missing pieces at head, tail, and tips; toning to spine; chippng and missing small pieces along top of the DJ. Yellow paper over boards and spine with orange lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 250 pp 8vo. Written by a Cape Town lawyer, this novel is set in Central Africa featuring a woman, Lavinia Whittaker, a woman of ruthless sophistication set against her ranching partner, Joe Latham, a battle royal for power ensues. The climax of the story is a lion hunt in which the emotions of the hunting party- at first civilized and controlled- are transformed and intensified by the perilous realities of the hunt itself. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016467
- Title
- Whittaker's Wife
- Author
- Harry Bloom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- lion hunt, hunting, African lion hunt, rifles, weapons, jungle animals, Central Africa, Rhodesia, romance, violence, Adventure fiction, African novel, big game hunters, Harry Bloom, Johannesburg South Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Matters;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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