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Mary Anne
by du Maurier, Daphne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Readers Book Club, 1955. Daphne du Maurier has reconstructed the exciting life story of the colourful personality, who was brought up in the squalid surroundings of a London slum towards the end of the eighteenth century. She exploited her charms to such an extent that before long she became mistress of the Duke of York, the favourite son of George III, and moved into his London home. Jacket designed by John Hearman and drawn by Vern Hayles. Fawn cloth, blue insert & gilt text on spine. 352pp. Cloth has wear to surfaces and edges. Ffep has name concealed with white-out and p/o stamp. Pages are clean, binding is firm. Unclipped DJ is lightly worn on spine tips and join extremities with 2 small chips on the mid-front joint. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Originally published: London : V. Gollancz, 1954.
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Details
- Seller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000978
- Title
- Mary Anne
- Author
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Readers Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Historical Romance Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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