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Burning Bright
by Chevalier, Tracy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0007178352
- ISBN 13
- 9780007178353
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "AUTHOR SIGNED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, metallic bronze title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear & slight spine lean. VG* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £15.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine with slight nicks at flap folds. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very slight reading wear, no marks to text, VG+* Illustrations: Small b/w vignettes at chapter headings throughout.* Pages: 390 pp. text. v pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake.* A VG AUTHOR SIGNED copy of the 1st. edition 1st. impression with minor faults.*
Synopsis
Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format. Rather than providing only the dialogue and brief stage directions as would be expected in a play, Steinbeck fleshes out the scenes with details of both the characters and the environment. The intention was to allow the play to be read by the non-theatrical reader while still allowing the dialogue to be lifted and performed with little adaptation by acting companies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 474
- Title
- Burning Bright
- Author
- Chevalier, Tracy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0007178352
- ISBN 13
- 9780007178353
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London UK 400
- Date Published
- 2007-03-05
- Size
- 21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm
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