Cardboard Castle.
by WREN, Percival Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Richelieu, France
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1938. First edition. No dust jacket. Orange boards faded to front and spine. Ex library, with a few stamps to front blank pages. Overall good reading copy. 311 pages. 195 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches). P.C. Wren is best known for his work Beau Geste. This story involves a woman, who thought herself a widow because her husband was officially declared dead, remarrying only to meet her 'dead' husband alive many years later. The invention of a fictional South-American country called Boruela, and its wicked dictator, only add to a strange plot.
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Details
- Seller
- Harrison-Hiett Rare Books (FR)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3868
- Title
- Cardboard Castle.
- Author
- WREN, Percival Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Beau Geste, adventure, fiction, Boruela, literature, modern first edition,
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may be returned within 2 weeks of delivery, and a full refund will be issued upon safe receipt of the item. We will cover return shipping costs if there was an error in the listing, but expect the customer to do so if it is "as described" but the customer has had a change of mind. Items lost or damaged during shipping from us remain our responsibility. Responsibility for items lost or damaged on the way to us rests with the customer.
About the Seller
Harrison-Hiett Rare Books
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Richelieu
About Harrison-Hiett Rare Books
Harrison-Hiett is a small, family run business. Originally based in England we have re-located our business to Europe. We now live in the Netherlands, where we spend our time visiting and exhibiting at fairs.
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