TERROR ON THE MOUNTAIN
by Charles F. Ramuz
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. Swiss novelist Ramuz delivers a taut, engrossing tale about Alpine villagers whose decision to tempt fate ends in disaster. Ignoring the pleas of their elders, some young men take their flocks to summer in an upland mountain pasture that is reputed locally to be a cursed place. It turns out that the reputation is well earned. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8" x 5 1/2"
Stated First Edition.
Card inside book "Upon request of the Embassy of Switzerland, Washington, DC, With the compliments of the Consulate of Switzerland" and a round stamp. This was found inside the book.
Book in very good clean condition. Turquoise boards with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket has a tear on front middle and tears at top and bottom of spine. In clear brodart covering for protection.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Well Read Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005780
- Title
- TERROR ON THE MOUNTAIN
- Author
- Charles F. Ramuz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 8" x 5 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Fiction, Collectibles;
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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...
- Brodart
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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