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Party Going
by Green, Henry
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Few marks, near fine in a moderately rubbed dust jacket with a small fingernail wound to the spine.
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First American edition. Few marks, near fine in a moderately rubbed dust jacket with a small fingernail wound to the spine.. 8vo, 255pp; red and yellow cloth. Published a dozen years after the English edition.
Synopsis
Party Going is a 1939 novel by British writer Henry Green. It tells the story of a group of wealthy people travelling by train to a house party. Due to fog, however, the train is much delayed and the group takes rooms in the adjacent large railway hotel. All the action of the story takes place in the hotel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Locus Solus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 205892
- Title
- Party Going
- Author
- Green, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used - Few marks, near fine in a moderately rubbed dust jacket with a small fingernail wound to the spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
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