Frenchman's Creek
by du Maurier, Daphne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, 1st edition; missing d/j, blue clothbound boards; spine faded with foxing; gilt spine-titling; text block firm, but bindin
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1941. 1st. h/b. Good, 1st edition; missing d/j, blue clothbound boards; spine faded with foxing; gilt spine-titling; text block firm, but binding has split at title. Otherwise, pages unmarked and crisp (wartime papers). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A pure, exhilarating adventure story - a swashbuckling tale of exquisite danger and tangled love' JULIE MYERSON. Lady Dona St Columb seems to revel in scandal: she is involved in every intrigue of the Restoration Court. But secretly, the shallowness of Court life disgusts her, and in her heart she longs for freedom and honest love. Retreating to Navron, her husband's Cornish estate, she seeks peace and solitude away from London. But Navron is being used as the base for a French pirate, an outlaw hunted all over Cornwall. Instead of feeling fear, Dona's thirst for adventure has never been more aroused; in Jean-Benoit Aubry she finds a sensitive man who would, like her, gamble his life for a moment's joy. Together they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which will force Dona to make the ultimate choice: will she sacrifice her lover to certain death, or risk her own life to save him?
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133347
- Title
- Frenchman's Creek
- Author
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1st edition; missing d/j, blue clothbound boards; spine faded with foxing; gilt spine-titling; text block firm, but bindin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 206
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, du Maurier
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....