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AT THE SIGN OF THE STAR.
by Sturtevant, Katherine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374304491
- ISBN 13
- 9780374304492
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2000). SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. An historical novel for young adults set in 1677 - the story of a bookseller's daughter which "recreates a lively and fascinating historical period when women claimed a new and more active role in London's literary scene. . . Meg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress. But Mr. Moore's unexpected marriage throws all Meg's dreams into confusion.. . Meg seeks wisdom from almanacs and astrologers, plays and books of jests, guides for ladies and guides for midwives. Yet it is through her own experience that she finds a new maturity with which to face her unknown future." SIGNED bookplate laid in. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Author's note. 140 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86982
- Title
- AT THE SIGN OF THE STAR.
- Author
- Sturtevant, Katherine
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374304491
- ISBN 13
- 9780374304492
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Keywords
- young adult, bookselling, restoration london, 17th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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