The Girls of Slender Means
by Spark, Muriel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co.. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Some foxing. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Some creasing to dust-jacket flaps. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [6], 183, [1] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 191 x 124mm. Scottish novelist. "The time is 1945, the sombre yet curiously carefree and vital months beween VE and VJ Days. The Girls of Slender Means live in theMay of Teck Club, an imposing edifice opposite the Albert Memorial, which exists 'for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of thirty years [. . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20476
- Title
- The Girls of Slender Means
- Author
- Spark, Muriel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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