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Watling pakub ainult väärtkaupa : romaan ühest kaubamajast (Watling Offers Only Worthwhile Products : A Novel About a Department Store)

Watling pakub ainult väärtkaupa : romaan ühest kaubamajast (Watling Offers Only Worthwhile Products : A Novel About a Department Store)

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Watling pakub ainult väärtkaupa : romaan ühest kaubamajast (Watling Offers Only Worthwhile Products : A Novel About a Department Store)

by Horace Annesley Vachell; Translation: Gustav Pärn

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Series: Looduse kroonine romaan nr. 82.

Good condition: front cover has mild edge fraying and multiple creases at corners, back cover shows some soiling, staining and rubbing; internally few occasional fingerprints.

Estonian translation of the novel "Watling's for Worth: A Romance of an Emporium" by a prolific English writer Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955) first published in 1925. In the focus of the novel is a love story set in a London department store and conflict between the social classes. "Watling's is a great London shop and Watling himself, energetic, crusty, self made, but wise and golden hearted". The young aristocrat falls in love with a daugher of self-made merchant Watling, but young man's family disapproves of his relationship. However, he goes agains the will of his parents and Starts to work in her father's shop to prove his worth.

Book's attractive avant-garde cover design created by unattributed artist.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
72
Title
Watling pakub ainult väärtkaupa : romaan ühest kaubamajast (Watling Offers Only Worthwhile Products : A Novel About a Department Store)
Author
Horace Annesley Vachell; Translation: Gustav Pärn
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st Estonian edition
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Loodus
Place of Publication
Tartu
Date Published
1935
Pages
256 pp
Size
18 x 12 cm
Weight
0.44 lbs
Keywords
British, English, novel, Estonian, avant-garde, cover, design
Bookseller catalogs
Baltic literature; England & Western Europe;

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