The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
by Rumer Godden
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Harwinton, Connecticut, United States
Item Price
NZ$25.53NZ$19.15
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co LTD. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover, 277 pages in very good condition, faint foxing on endpapers, rest of book fine with good dustjacket, it has wear and chipping on edges. Published in London, 1st edition.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .
Synopsis
"The two younger Clavering children discover to their horror that their mother has gone off with another man. They refuse to accept it. Determined to bring their mother home, they leave their lonely London flat and begin their long journey to an unknown part of Italy. Once they arrive, they realize that their task is not the simple one they had thought."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavender Path Antiques and Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005366
- Title
- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
- Author
- Rumer Godden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lavender Path Antiques and Books
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Harwinton, Connecticut
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...