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A Mantis Carol
by Post, Laurens Van der
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0701204109
- ISBN 13
- 9780701204105
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition:1st.* Impression:1st.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: The Hogarth Press.* Binding and cover condition: Light Green cloth, Gilt title to spine. Top and bottom edge lightly sunned. No bumps or rubs, some light marks. VG* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £2.50. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no foxing, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 166 pp. text. iii pp. Blank at rear.* Description: ?And always Mantis would have a dream,? they told me in the desert. ?And the dream would tell him what to do.? This Stone-Age text which the author brought back from one of his earliest expeditions into the Kalahari achieves an immediate contemporary relevance in this tale. "The setting is America, in particular, New York of today, and the story, the life of one of Mantis's own children in that newest of worlds and his impact on the people who gave him shelter.* A FINE text copy with only minor sunning to boards.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2073
- Title
- A Mantis Carol
- Author
- Post, Laurens Van der
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701204109
- ISBN 13
- 9780701204105
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 168
- This edition first published
- 1975
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