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Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life
by Mourad, Kenize
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 155970019X
- ISBN 13
- 9781559700191
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1989. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 562pp. Light grey endpapers. Prev owner name on ffep. Remainder mark on bottom edge of textblock. Blue boards, dark blue cloth quarter-wrap spine with bright silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Colour illustrated DJ clean showing very light bumping to head and tail, preserved in BroDart cover. Originally published as, De la Part de la Princesse Mort, and translated from the French by Sabine Destree and Anna Williams in collaboration with the author. "This major novel, based on the bedrock of history, has been an immediate best-seller in every country where it has appeared. A work of epic proportions, it is also a love letter from a daughter - the author - to a mother she never knew. Kenize Mourad spent four years researching and writing this work. She retraced her mother's footsteps from the splendor of the palaces of Isantbul, to Beruit, India, and thence to Paris, interviewed more than a thousand people, consulted countless archives and records... and then wrote this extraordinary book.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25255
- Title
- Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life
- Author
- Mourad, Kenize
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 155970019X
- ISBN 13
- 9781559700191
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Selma, Princess, granddaughter of Murad V. Sultan of the Turks, 1911-1941 - fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Contemporary Fiction and Literature;
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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- Brodart
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- FFEP
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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