Shadows on the Rock
by Willa Cather
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hardback, 1932, first edition, published by Cassell and Company, Limited, London, 278 pages.
Measures 7 3/4" x 5 3/8". Grey cloth binding. A little fading to spine, some marking and scuffing to boards. Signs of shelf-wear. Very small tear to base of spine. Bumped corners. Binding reasonably firm though a bit strained in a few places. A little browning and scuffing to page edges but quite clean. Page surfaces clean, no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
Synopsis
This tale was published in 1931. Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock tells the tale of a young girl, her widower father, and their friends, all of them working to make a life for themselves in Quebec in 1697.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-505
- Title
- Shadows on the Rock
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Pages
- 278
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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