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The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis
by Carpenter, Teresa
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0743200551
- ISBN 13
- 9780743200554
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Hardcover in non pricve-clipped dust-jacket. 238pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. The story of American missionary Miss Ellen Stone, kidnapped and held for ransom in the mountainous hinterlands on Macedonia in 1901, and the cast of characters who had a part in or attached themselves to her ordeal. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, sqaure, fresh unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009214
- Title
- The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis
- Author
- Carpenter, Teresa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0743200551
- ISBN 13
- 9780743200554
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Balkans, History, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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