Portrait of a Marriage
by BUCK, Pearl S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Melbourne: Methuen, 1947 Red cloth titled in black on spine, endpaper maps. Tight and square, browning in edges, name at top of title page. Dust jacket is unclipped, small tears to corners, in a clear film protective sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Synopsis
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters. This is a book of strong emotions relating to Sackville-West's complicated marriage to writer and politician Harold Nicolson. The two chapters written by Vita sometimes seem to be a diary and sometimes a self-confession.
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- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013299
- Title
- Portrait of a Marriage
- Author
- BUCK, Pearl S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Australian Edition.
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1947
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Edges
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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