The Time of Wild Roses
by Doreen Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- G-/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Item Price:
$35.47
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1938. Tale of flood tragedy in East Anglia's Waveney Valley area. Very scarce early novel by the prolific Cumberland/East Anglian author. First edition (?). Red covers with white lettering on spine, 446pp. Rough-cut lower edges. Covers have bumping and wear to extrems, 6cm split along lower joint, spine faded. Page edges dusty, yellowed and lightly foxed. Prelims missing up to and inc title page and upper hinge split and reinforced with tape. Lower hinge partially cracked but holding well. No DJ. Ref:104406. First Edition. Cloth. G-/N/a. 14x20.5cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 004406
- Title
- The Time of Wild Roses
- Author
- Doreen Wallace
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - G-
- Jacket condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
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About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- First Edition
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- foxed
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