HARNESS : A Novel
by A. Hamilton Gibbs
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1928. 1st Edition First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Thus. Red embossed black linen boards/NF w/light surface wear. DJ/None. English-American novelist Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (1888 - 1964), brother of Cosmo Hamilton & Sir Philip Gibbs, wrote 16 novels and two books of poetry; known for The Persistent Lovers (1915) adapted to film 1922 film under the same title, and Soundings (1925), best-seller in the US. This 1928 historical novel is the story of Michael Gordon and Patricia Wade following World War I. Michael, now a major, left Oxford to Egypt, wounded & sent home from the Darnelles, in Ireland during the Sinn Fein, and was in France for the last 2 years of war where exposure to mustard gas threatened blindness for the remainder of his life, proposes to Pat. For both, and the reader, life patterns are hard to predict.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020499
- Title
- HARNESS : A Novel
- Author
- A. Hamilton Gibbs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition First Thus
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Historical Novel, World War II
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