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The Stone Carvers SIGNED by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: Alex Simpson
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 003203
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG
- Jacket condition: VG+
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0771086873
- ISBN 13: 9780771086878
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Place: Toronto, Ontario Canada
- Date published: 2001
- Pages: 392
Description
Toronto, Ontario Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2001 First printing. Signed by the author on the title page "For_, with thanks for being such a supportive reader, ". Previous owners "Please return to" on the FFEP otherwise pages are unmarked and firm in binding. Light soil wear to outer edges. DJ has light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 15 x 22 x 3.5 cm, wt800g. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book. 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. ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
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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