Dynasty of Death
by Caldwell, Taylor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 780 pages. The red boards are faded, as is the title on the spine and there is a neat ownership inscription on the front paste down, else clean, unmarked and solid. First British Edition. " Dynasty of Death was the debut novel of the Anglo-American writer Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985). When Caldwell submitted the manuscript to Maxwell Perkins in 1937, she was an unknown housewife from Buffalo, New York. Dynasty of Death launched her prolific career. The novel is set in Windsor, Pennsylvania, a fictional mill town on the Allegheny River north of Pittsburgh.It is an epic multigenerational saga, stretching from 1837 to the eve of World War I, about the Bouchard and Barbour families, who grow their small munitions factory into a great international corporation." (Wikipedia)
Synopsis
Dynasty of Death was the debut novel of the Anglo-American writer Taylor Caldwell. When Caldwell submitted the manuscript to Maxwell Perkins in 1937, she was an unknown housewife from Buffalo, New York. Dynasty of Death launched her prolific career. The novel is set in Windsor, Pennsylvania, a fictional mill town on the Allegheny River north of Pittsburgh.
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021226
- Title
- Dynasty of Death
- Author
- Caldwell, Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- American Fiction
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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