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The Transit of Venus
by Hazzard, Shirley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0670724262
- ISBN 13
- 9780670724260
- Seller
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Southampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($11.95 price intact). Published by Viking, 1980. Octavo. Dark blue cloth over red boards stamped in gold. Signed by Shirley Hazzard on flyleaf (flat signed). Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with some very light shelf wear and a light spot on spine top. Scarce signed copy of this award-winning novel. ISBN: 0670724262. 337 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Synopsis
The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard 's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 151368
- Title
- The Transit of Venus
- Author
- Hazzard, Shirley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670724262
- ISBN 13
- 9780670724260
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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- Shelf Wear
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
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- Octavo
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