The Last of the Wine
by Mary Renault
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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South Portland, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Pantheon Books, 1957, 8vo, 389 pages. This volume is a first edition, fourth printing. The first three printings were published in October, November, and December of 1956, and the fourth in January of 1957. Dust jacket has $4.50 price. Dust jacket has some browning at the edges of front and back covers, a spot and a couple of tears at the top center of the back, and some soiling on the back. Book is wrapped in protective plastic cover. Front and rear end papers have a small brown area. Text is unmarked and tight. Please see photos as they illustrate these comments on the book's condition.
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- Trudy O'Connell (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32
- Title
- The Last of the Wine
- Author
- Mary Renault
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pahtheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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