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The Stone Carvers by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: A Good Read
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 12320
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Near Fine
- Edition: Second Impression
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0771086873
- ISBN 13: 9780771086878
- Publisher: M & S
- Place: Toronto
- Date published: 2001
- Pages: 392
Description
Toronto: M & S, 2001 Signed by Author. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
Klara is a seamstress in a small Ontario village, but when her older brother disappears and her lover dies in World War I, she travels to Paris and learns to carve stone like her grandfather did, so that she can participate in the carving of a war memorial.
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