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Away SIGNED by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: Alex Simpson
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 008376
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: VG
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0771086598
- ISBN 13: 9780771086595
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date published: 1993
- Size: 6.25 x 9 x 1 inches
- Weight: 1 pounds
Description
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1993 2nd printing, signed by the author on the title page (For_). Light tanning to paper otherwise pages are unmarked and firm in binding. French wraps have light rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 16 x 22.9 x 2.9 cm, wt625g. Signed by Author. Reprint. Soft Cover. VG. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
vg : Very Good condition. can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
title page : A page where the title of the book, the author's name and publication information usually appear.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
This is the saga of an Irish family who face the hardships of famine, emigration, and political turmoil with an enduring spiritualist faith. In 1830's Ireland Mary is a young woman who's life is changed when a fairy sailor dies in her arms. Although she marries and moves her family to Ottawa to escape the famine, the fairy world never loosens its grip. Later in life she is called into the Canadian woods to die, abandoning her husband and two children. Her daughter Eileen carries on Mary's proclivity for impossible, otherworldly love, by falling for a fiery Irish patriot who is then caught up in an assassination plot. The whole tale is framed in the memories and legends as recalled by the 80-year-old Esther, Mary's great granddaughter.
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