New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. "In recounting the life of his great-aunt, one of the foremost living writers tells not only of a remarkable woman but of an extraordinary family during the course of England's greatest century." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Bookstore's sticker on back paste-down endpaper near spine. Spine is slightly skewed and loose, small bump on bottom right corner of front board, slight discoloration on head edges of boards, pages are lightly tanned. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ is lightly tanned, corners of flaps are clipped, very faint discoloration down front flap. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages .

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Bookseller: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 52648
Title: Marianne Thornton A Domestic Biography, 1797-1887
Author: Forster, E. M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1956

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