Wide is the Gate
by Sinclair, Upton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: T. Werner Laurie. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1948). Hardcover. A 2/3" tear and an ink number on the front free endpaper. No signatures. Some spots of foxing to top page edges. 1/4" tears and chips at corners of dust wrapper and at head and tail of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; Fifth printing of the UK edition. 640 pages. Red boards with blue lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 180 x 121mm. A novel, the fourth volume in the "World's End" series. ; 12mo .
Synopsis
Wide Is the Gate is the fourth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1943, the story covers the period from 1934 to 1937. In this novel Lanny Budd's marriage to Irma breaks down after he imposes on her to help smuggle a revolutionary named Trudy out of Germany. Her husband Rudy had been arrested and vanished into the Gestapo prison system. Months later Lanny, at a séance, hears that Rudy is dead. He persuades Trudy that Rudy is dead and they secretly marry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12686
- Title
- Wide is the Gate
- Author
- Sinclair, Upton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- T. Werner Laurie
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1948)
Terms of Sale
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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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...