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The Lamb's War: A Novel
by De Hartog, Jan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Harper & Row/Atheneum, 1980. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. The story opens in Nazi-occupied Europe and moves on to the American Southwest. It is a dramatic, soul-searching story that asks why are we here and why we act as we do. At the heart of the story is the relationship between a Dutch girl and an American boy who meet in a just-liberated Nazi concentration camp. Book is bound in grey cloth with a red & gilt panel on front and spine, gilt lettering. Trace wear to lower corner, no other edgewear. Top edge of text block has pale spotting and one darker spot. Tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Internals very clean and free from any markings, lightly toned. Red jacket is clean, moderate wear to extremities, spine head chipped. 461 pages. 8.5 x 5.6 inches. 1980, Harper & Row/Atheneum, New York, New York, USA
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- Seller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 021593
- Title
- The Lamb's War: A Novel
- Author
- De Hartog, Jan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Harper & Row/Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL FICTION WORLD WAR II CONCENTRATION CAMPS NAZISM QUAKERS
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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