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A Severed Wasp
by L'engle, Madeleine
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374517835
- ISBN 13
- 9780374517830
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Advance Reading Copy (ARC, proof). Good in wraps with scuffing and chipping to spine edges and creasing to spine.
Synopsis
A Severed Wasp, is a novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It continues the story of a pianist, Katherine Forrester, who was first seen in The Small Rain. Now a widow in her seventies, Katherine Forrester Vigneras returns to New York City in retirement from concert touring in Europe. There she encounters Felix Bodeway, an old friend from her Greenwich Village days, who is now the retired Episcopal Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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- Seller
- Peruse the Stacks (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2311
- Title
- A Severed Wasp
- Author
- L'engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374517835
- ISBN 13
- 9780374517830
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
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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....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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...
- 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...