Britannia Mews
by SHARP, Margery
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. A book club edition of Margery Sharp's 1946 romance novel, set in London. In this story, her Adelaide Culver character falls in love with a dissolute artist, much to her upper-crust family's disapproval. This work was made into a 1949 movie starring Maureen O'Hara and Dana Andrews. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling in navy. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A tightly-bound, well-preserved copy, though with prior owner's signature to front paste-down.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; (6), 378 pages .
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Details
- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 87777
- Title
- Britannia Mews
- Author
- SHARP, Margery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1946
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....