Peace Breaks Out
by Angela Thirkell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st American ed. 12mo, beige cloth with green titles, top edge green, 370 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD book / GOOD- jacket: front board has a faint damp stain on bottom edge with a slight rippling of the first several pages which does not affect your reading pleasure, otherwise little wear, owner inscription on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn with 1" missing chips to spine head and tail, rubbing at folds, NOT price-clipped. Photograph of Thirkell on jacket fly.
Synopsis
Peace Breaks Out (1981) is a novel by American author John Knowles, better known for A Separate Peace (1959). The books share the setting of the Devon preparatory school, probably a reference to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, which Knowles attended in his youth.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bygone Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17915
- Title
- Peace Breaks Out
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- COMEDY OF MANNERS, WOMEN WRITERS, 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Writers;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bygone Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...