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Showing the Flag
by Jane Gardam
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0349101167
- ISBN 13
- 9780349101163
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia
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About This Item
London: Sphere Books / Abacus, 1990. Trade Paperback. First paperback printing. Good+. Tanned and foxed. Text unmarked. Spine creased. Not from a library. 162 pages. Most of the stories in this collection are about flags and why the English wave them. This collection also includes a ghost story; the story of a hanging in 1919 of a young boy; and "After the Strawberry Tea", a terror story of an English Chernobyl off the coast of Kent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000001514
- Title
- Showing the Flag
- Author
- Jane Gardam
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First paperback printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0349101167
- ISBN 13
- 9780349101163
- Publisher
- Sphere Books / Abacus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 162
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, English, England, short stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Europe; Britain;
- Size
- 8vo
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- trade paperback
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- good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process... [More]
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