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Dina's Book
by Wassmo, Herbjorg
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0552996734
- ISBN 13
- 9780552996730
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Black Swan, 1996-03-01. First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. VG+/VG/ND. 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm. Box 85 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. UK* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Black Swan* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustration to soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners, no creases to spine or hinge but front board creased. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. Very slightly grubby at fore-edge. Seems very lightly used if at all. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 527 pp. text.* Product Description:- Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century - a land of short, blazing, idyllic summers and dark, frost-rimed winters, of mountains, bear-hunts and hazardous sea voyages - Dina's Book centres around a beautiful, eccentric and unpredictable woman who bewitches everyone she meets. At the age of five Dina unwittingly causes her mother's death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. Her guilt becomes her obsession: her unforgiving mother haunts her every day. This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. with some cover wear.* 0
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5084
- Title
- Dina's Book
- Author
- Wassmo, Herbjorg
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ND
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0552996734
- ISBN 13
- 9780552996730
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996-03-01
- Pages
- 528
- Size
- 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm
- X weight
- g
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Cocksparrow Books
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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