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The Last of the Wine.
by Renault, Mary
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with torchbearer logo blind stamped on the front cover; gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a
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About This Item
New York:: Modern Library, 1956.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with torchbearer logo blind stamped on the front cover; gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Notes, chronology. Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: This is book number 336 in the Modern Library series. Includes a chronological table, glossary, and map. A novel of Greece in fifth century BC. The only printed date is a 1956 copyright. This copy circa 1966. Dust jacket style l2; binding style 10.
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068416
- Title
- The Last of the Wine.
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with torchbearer logo blind stamped on the front cover; gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1956.
- Pages
- 389 pages.
- Size
- 12mo (7.25 inches tall)
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
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