Daughter of Fortune
by Alende, Isabel; Margaret Sayers, (trans.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins , 1999 First U.S.Edition, 1999 (later printing). Hardcover, black cloth with gold title to spine, 399 pp. Oprah Bookclub edition d/j. Condition Fine, with Near Fine unclipped d/j, in mylar. Young Eliza Sommers, raised among conservative English relatives in Valparaiso, Chile, sets sail in search of her departed lover, gone to seek his fortune in the California gold rush of the 1840's. From the blurb: the " on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough and tumble world of SanFrancisco and northern California, we enter a world who's newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever…Her search for the elusive Joaquin gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms over time, and what begins as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.". Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8635
- Title
- Daughter of Fortune
- Author
- Alende, Isabel; Margaret Sayers, (trans.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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About the Seller
Dark and Stormy Night Books
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
About Dark and Stormy Night Books
Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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