Night Falls On The City. A Novel About Vienna
by Gainham, Sarah
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
£12.25£6.12
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About This Item
New York: Holt,Rinehart and Winston ( 1967 ) Third Printing BOMC Edition. This novel is set in Vienna during the tumultuous years from the German 'Anschluss' of 1938 down to the Russian invasion of Austria in 1945. The cast of characters is a large and brilliant one. Sarah Gainham skillfully depicts a city decaying into madness and fear at the hands of its Nazi oppressors.... Beige boards with coloured line design to front board and red title print to spine. Blue endpapers. Bookplate on fep and previous owner's signature to ffep. Untrimmed fore edge. Pictorial dust jacket by Ben Feder. A clean, sound copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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- Seller
- Gilt Edge Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- A1029
- Title
- Night Falls On The City. A Novel About Vienna
- Author
- Gainham, Sarah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Holt,Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Fiction Sarah Gainham-British Novelist Vienna(1938)- Fiction Nazi Crimes- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Gilt Edge Books
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