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Mittee
by Daphne Rooke
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1952 Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1952. Hardcover. BOMC Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; Fine condition but for three small fabric tears on the board top edges; thus Very Good. DJ: Very Good chipping to head and front upper tip; light wear to other tips and tail; light bumping to top edge. Yellow cloth boards with red lettering and rules on the spine; lettering on front board. BOMC review sheet laid in. 312 pp 8vo. This story comes from South Africa in the days of the Boers and told by Selina, the native servant girl to the young rich girl Mittee. The story revolves around Paul (Mittee's husband), Mittee, and Selina who are bound in destiny by love and the land. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008129
- Title
- Mittee
- Author
- Daphne Rooke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mittee, South Africa, Selina, colored help, servant girl, Boer settlers, Afrikaners, Boer War, mulatto servant girl, mistress, integration, segregation, race relations, Kaffirs, Daphne Rooke
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Matters;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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