Adam's Breed
by HALL, Radclyffe
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Second printing (before publication). Octavo (19.5cm). Blue cloth, in grey and orange dust jacket, grey topstain; [xii],[380]pp; publisher's ads to dust jacket rear panel, and blurbs to both flaps. Sound, gently rubbed, with a slight forward lean: Very Good or better. Dust jacket unclipped (priced $2.50 below blurb); browned on spine and along edges, mildly rubbed at edges with one or two tiny tears: Very Good.
Early reprint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse.
Early reprint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60036
- Title
- Adam's Breed
- Author
- HALL, Radclyffe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Reprint
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- Spine
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