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The Heart of the House
by Jacob, Naomi
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 1951. Gold title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and a small bump to one lower corner tip. Internally there is a little light foxing to endpapers, closed edges and to the first few pages else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy for its age. Dustjacket has light wear to edges, a taped repair to the complete edge alongside spine and is price clipped. Set against a background of Yorkshire and Bournemouth, its characters are Drake Marsden, son of a prosperous solicitor in a Yorkshire country town, estate agent to Sir Robert Maudesley, an autocratic but impoverished landowner who treats him badly. Drake's sister Edith and Maudesley's son and heir Sholto are secretly in love, though they both know that Sir Robert expects Sholto to marry wealth and set the estate on its feet again. The story tells of Edith's act of sacrifice and the subsequent coming into her life of Bill Gollantz, and of Drake's love for Flora Willis, who runs a pub. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008665
- Title
- The Heart of the House
- Author
- Jacob, Naomi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- YORKSHIRE, BOURNEMOUTH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Goldring Books
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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