Poppy Factory, The
by Fairchild, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0747500622
- ISBN 13
- 9780747500629
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0747500622 . Blue hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine and gilt stars to the front cover. First Edition. Tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text, blue ribbon marker and light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped with oversive flaps, light cover scuffing and edgwear. "A Colt revolver and a faded manuscript left by General Garrard to his grandson revealing the most closely guarded secrets of the First World War act as the starting point of this novel. The manuscript tells of a particular madness bred from a greater insanity; of how soldiers of opposing races and creeds chose to exist like groups of half-crazed animals in caverns far beneath the scarred earth rather than continue to slaughter one another on the battlefields above. "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 173 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14399
- Title
- Poppy Factory, The
- Author
- Fairchild, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747500622
- ISBN 13
- 9780747500629
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0747500622
- Bookseller catalogs
- War; Fiction, War;
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