Intl. Ed.
A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel
by Allende, Isabel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Note
- International Edition
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ballantyne Books, 2020 First International Edition, third printing. Hard cover, 8vo., (measuring 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches) in mint colored paper covered boards, a light blue spine, titles in gilt. In a similar colored, art deco-influenced dust jacket, now protected in mylar. Condition: Near Fine, with one small scuff to front board; d/j/ is Fine. Allende's best selling novel is based on some true events of the Spanish Civil War. Her characters, an unlikely couple, undertake a dangerous mountain journey to France, and thence sail aboard the cargo ship "Winnepeg" to exile in Chile, an escape organized by the Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda in the late 1930's. From a review by Paula McLain in the Telegraph (2020): "In "A Long Petal of the Sea," as in much of Allende's fiction, there is the sense that every human life is an odyssey, and that how and where we connect creates the fabric of our existence: the source of our humanity." . International Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.
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- Seller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8441
- Title
- A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel
- Author
- Allende, Isabel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- International Edition
- Publisher
- Ballantyne Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
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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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