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Meet the Austins
by Madeleine L'Engle
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on title page. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and cream paper boards. Fine. A crisp, clean copy. Dust jacket shows very light edgewear; not price clipped. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 216 pages. 8.2 x 5.25 inches. Fifth printing of the 1997 FSG edition. Laid-in is a publisher-issued flier, showing the family-trees of the characters in L'Enlge's Chronos and Kairos series of novels (the Austins and the Murry-O'Keefes, respectively).
Synopsis
Meet the Austins is the title of a 1960 novel by Madeline L'Engle, the first of her books about the Austin family. It introduces the characters Vicky Austin and her three siblings, and Maggy Hamilton, an orphan. Vicky's noisy, loving, mostly-happy family is disrupted by the arrival of Maggy, a spoiled, troubled only child who had very little family life even before her father died in a plane crash.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013074
- Title
- Meet the Austins
- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chronos,
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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