Shadow on the Hearth
by Merril, Judith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 277 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Slight wear to the corner tips. Previous owner's name and address on front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with slight toning. Dust jacket has some wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Soft crease on the spine. A little darkened along the flap edges. Not price clipped. The first novel by American-Canadian award-winning science fiction writer Judith Merril. An anti-Vietnam war protestor, Merril moved to Toronto in the late 1960's where she started an endowment to the Toronto Public Library to purchase a copy of every science fiction published in English. The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy at TPL is named after her. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5343
- Title
- Shadow on the Hearth
- Author
- Merril, Judith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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