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Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography
by Tema Nason
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385301685
- ISBN 13
- 9780385301688
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£8.10£5.67
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1990 Delacorte Press, New York. 1990. Hardcover. Stated First U.S.A. Printing/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($18.95); lithe shelfwear to head, tail, and upper tips; light rubbing to flap folds and spine. Blue paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine; gray lettering on the spine. NY Times newspapers as endpapers. 306 pp 8vo. This book is a novel about Ethel Rosenberg, the convicted and sentenced to death, Russian spy. This fictional account is based on what she might have written or thought while in prison awaiting her death. The author digs in to the letters between she and her husband, Julius, spoke to their son, and visited her psychiatrist to arrive at and answer as to why she did what she did. Through fiction, Ethel's own hard life, her love for her family, and of a world even more frightened can one begin to see the truth. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014816
- Title
- Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography
- Author
- Tema Nason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385301685
- ISBN 13
- 9780385301688
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Novel, Cold War Fiction, nuclear secrets, Russians, Jewish, death penalty, female prisoner, atomic bomb secrets, military fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Cold War; Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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