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Noble House
by James Clavell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 034025954X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340259542
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, UK, 1981. First Export Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Book Inscribed by Author. Same as UK First without the price on the jacket flap. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Minor marks and wear to dust jacket, lightly foxed inside. Block edges foxed and stained. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 034025954X. ISBN/EAN: 9780340259542..
Synopsis
Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is part of Clavell's Asian Saga. It is a massive book, well over 1000 pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for NBC starring Pierce Brosnan. The miniseries updates the storyline of the novel to the 1980s. The Noble House also is a nickname of Struan's, the trading company featured prominently in most of Clavell's novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50326
- Title
- Noble House
- Author
- James Clavell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Export Edition
- ISBN 10
- 034025954X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340259542
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Fiction; Fiction::Historical Fiction; Inscribed by Author Unbranded ISBN: 034025954X EAN: 9780340259542 James Clavell Noble House
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Mona Vale, New South Wales
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Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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