Prisoner of Grace
by CARY, Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. First American Edition. Hardcover. A first American edition (so stated, with H-B to copyright page) of the first novel in the author's "Second Trilogy", followed by his "Except the Lord", and "Not Honour More". Anglo-Irish Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (1888-1957) struggled early in his writing career but achieved success with his first trilogy. --- In green tweedy paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with spine titling in gilt. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A rather worn copy, with general bruising to covers & dulling to spine titling, torn rear endpaper and with ink and tape remnants to endpapers; interior of book remains clean, tightly-bound and unmarked.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 301 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84913
- Title
- Prisoner of Grace
- Author
- CARY, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
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Littleton, Colorado
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...