The Threshold
by Wahl, Karin Von
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Used book may have markings, writing from previous owner. DJ has issues. Piece missing on front cover (Image of actual book). Bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Top stain of light grey on top outer edges. Pages deckled. Dampstain on back of DJ but has not bled into the inner pages. Rest of the book is in good condition. Novel of refugees waiting at Ellis Island, many fleeing the devastation of World War Two, hoping for entry into the United States; "the story of many lives suspended in time and place between their tragic pasts and their tenacious hopes for the future." The author was herself a Latvian who travelled & studied extensively in Europe, coming to America in 1946, barely escaping the complete closure of the Iron Curtain. B7.
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- Bookseller
- Better Bindings (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1728
- Title
- The Threshold
- Author
- Wahl, Karin Von
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 245
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...