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Whittaker's Wife
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Whittaker's Wife Hardcover - 1962

by Harry Bloom

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  • Hardcover

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New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1962. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; slight shelfwear to head board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; wear and missing small pieces at head and upper tips; light toning to spin and top edge of DJ; light soiling to rear panel. Yellow paper over boards and spine with orange lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 250 pp 8vo. Written by a Cape Town lawyer, this novel is set in Central Africa featuring a woman, Lavinia Whittaker, a woman of ruthless sophistication set against her ranching partner, Joe Latham, a battle royal for power ensues. The climax of the story is a lion hunt in which the emotions of the hunting party- at first civilized and controlled- are transformed and intensified by the perilous realities of the hunt itself. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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  • Title Whittaker's Wife
  • Author Harry Bloom
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Book Club Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Publisher Simon and Schuster, New York, NY
  • Date 1962
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 016471

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