The Visitors
by McMinnies, Mary
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An eye-catching and unusual unclipped dust jacket, designed by Drake Brookshaw. Slight rubbing from shelf and handling wear, but overall a very good dust jacket. Green boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Mary McMinnies' second novel; a long out-of-print, highly realistic novel highly praised by John Metcalf from The Sunday Times (on dj inside flap). BOTMC selection.
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Details
- Seller
- Denali Bay LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1000451
- Title
- The Visitors
- Author
- McMinnies, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BOMC
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
Denali Bay LLC
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About the Seller
Denali Bay LLC
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Denali Bay LLC
Denali Bay specializes in delivering antique, vintage, and rare books to our customers. We offer high-quality products worthy of displaying, collecting, or just enjoying. Many are first editions and some are signed by the authors. Shop Denali Bay now for a great experience.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.