Minister, The
by Edelman Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, Great Britian: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. Green hard boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Slight bow to the top cover. The interior is very clean & bright with a solid binding. "Melville, the Minister in Edelman's "The Minister" , is now Prime Minister, a rank he has reached after a bitter fight for the succession with Ormston, the former Chancellor of The Exchequer. But at the moment of victory, he has learned through his daughter that his domestic security has depended on a squalid deceiption by his wife Elizabeth. The book deals with men and women who rarely ask for pity, it is also a study in love and compassion." ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 286 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 382
- Title
- Minister, The
- Author
- Edelman Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London, Great Britian
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; England;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...