Torch, The
by Penfield, Wilder
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. 5th. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 370 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, some tanning. Cover boards bound in green, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Previous books store price tag on front flap. Some foxing to dust jacket and edges. Taking place in ancient Greece, The Torch tells of the explosive chain of events in which Hippocrates becomes entangled when he is called to treat Penelope, daughter of Timon, the first Archon of Cos, and thought to be hopelessly ill with epilepsy, the Sacred Disease. Record # 31822
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31822
- Title
- Torch, The
- Author
- Penfield, Wilder
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 5th
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels, 5th, , .
Terms of Sale
Monroe Street Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Monroe Street Books
Biblio member since 2006
Middlebury, Vermont
About Monroe Street Books
Monroe Street Books is Vermont's largest used book store. Open 7 days a week. Over 100,000 books in store. Additional 50,000 online.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...