Random Harvest
by Hilton, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Vg-/Good
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1941. Light blue textured boards with red stamping has light spine lean and light foxing to top edge. Vintage bookplate on front pastedown. First edition stated on copyright page. Price intact jacket has quite a bit of foxing on spine and along front fold. Some fairly small chips at spine ends of jacket and quite a bit of wear along edges. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Vg-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on The New York Times list of bestselling novels for the year. The novel was successfully adapted into a film of the same name in 1942 under the direction of Mervyn LeRoy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014983
- Title
- Random Harvest
- Author
- Hilton, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Books Into Film;
Terms of Sale
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Books sent out within 24 - 48 hours upon receipt of order. Return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives that is not as described.
About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
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