The Glass-Blowers
by du Maurier, Daphne
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st reprint society ed. (1st Gollancz 1963), unclipped d/j (fair - flaps loose), blue/red boards clean, gilt spine ti
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About This Item
London: Reprint Soc. (by arr. Victor Gollancz), 1964. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st reprint society ed. (1st Gollancz 1963), unclipped d/j (fair - flaps loose), blue/red boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; pages unmarked and tightly bound. . 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The Glass blowers is about the Bussons, the author's forebears, before and during the French Revolution. An engraved glass in her posession, and an old letter found by chance among family papers left by her grandfather, George du Maurier, led the author on a voyage of discovery. the result is a novel which has a quiet intensity of feeling.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC57635
- Title
- The Glass-Blowers
- Author
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st reprint society ed. (1st Gollancz 1963), unclipped d/j (fair - flaps loose), blue/red boards clean, gilt spine ti
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reprint Soc. (by arr. Victor Gollancz)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, du Maurier
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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