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The Lake of Dreams
by Edwards, Kim
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0670920231
- ISBN 13
- 9780670920235
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK "BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY KEEPERS DAUGHTER," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. stated (1).* Date: 2011.* Pub: Viking for Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. No bumps, minor rubs to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing a boat floating on moonlit lake. Gilt and white titles to spine and face. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £18.99. Minor shelf wear to top and bottom edges and to head and tail of spine. In clear attached protective film cover. VG.* Contents condition: Ex school-library copy of the 1st./1st.with usual stamps and labels to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minor reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Some slight toning to all edges. VG* Illustrations: One two-page b/w line drawn family tree at rear plus b/w vignettes at chapter headings.* Pages: 382 pp. text. xiii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves. . . Ten years ago, traumatized by her father's death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family's rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest. Sleepless one night, Lucy makes a momentous discovery. Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms - objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find. Piecing together her family's true history, she realises that the story she has always been told was a fiction.* A NEAR VG+ ex school library copy of the 1st./1st. with some minor faults reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9605
- Title
- The Lake of Dreams
- Author
- Edwards, Kim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0670920231
- ISBN 13
- 9780670920235
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 395
- Date Published
- 2011-01-20
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- Gilt
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