Mary Webb : Her Life Work
by Moult, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece. 287, [10]pp. Plus 55pp "The Travellers' Library : The Life and Letters Series catalogue. The spine is faded; foxing to endpages. Mary Gladys Webb (1881-1927) was an English romance novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger based on the novel of the same title. (Wikipedia); 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10031
- Title
- Mary Webb : Her Life Work
- Author
- Moult, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Romance Novels - Mary Webb, English Fiction - Romance -, Victorian Romance - Fiction
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- Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General; Biographies & Autobiographies;
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