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Master Georgie
by Beryl Bainbridge
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0715628313
- ISBN 13
- 9780715628317
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London: Duckworth, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Synopsis
Master Georgie is a 1998 historical novel by English novelist Beryl Bainbridge. It deals with the British experience of the Crimean War through the adventures of the eponymous central character George Hardy, who volunteers to work on the battlefields. The novel was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and won the WH Smith Literary Award in 1999. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in what was Bainbridge's fifth nomination.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94295
- Title
- Master Georgie
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0715628313
- ISBN 13
- 9780715628317
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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