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The Years of Grace
by Streatfeild, Noel (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Evans Brothers Limited. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 384 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Fading along the top and bottom edges and the spine ends. Some soil to both boards and the text block edges. Endpapers lightly toned. "This Book Belongs To: " has been completed in ink. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket has heavy wear to the spine ends and corners, including paper loss, long and short tears, and creases. It has been reinforced on the reverse side with cello tape in several places. A collection of articles that provide advice to girls about growing up and facing a wide range of choices dealing with personal care, how to act at home, leisure activities, sport, and careers. The authors include Elizabeth Arden, Richmal Crompton, Virginia Graham, Rumer Godden, Noel Streatfeild, and others. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates and drawings. May require extra postage due to weight of book. .
Synopsis
Years of Grace is a 1930 novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1931.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5440
- Title
- The Years of Grace
- Author
- Streatfeild, Noel (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Evans Brothers Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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