NUNS IN JEOPARDY.
by Boyd, Martin (1893-1972)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in illustrated wrappers (remainder line and toning to the pages, but a tight copy, appears unread)
- ISBN 10
- 0156678209
- ISBN 13
- 9780156678209
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1974). Near fine in illustrated wrappers (remainder line and toning to the pages, but a tight copy, appears unread). 1st trade paperback printing. A posthumous edition of Boyd's least-known novel and one of his most unusual stories - a group of eleven shipwrecked people, including 6 nuns, find themselves on an uninhabited tropical island where the facade of civilization begin to erode under the malign influence of one of the seamen. Originally published in London in 1940, almost all copies of the first edition were destroyed in the Blitz. This edition includes a postscript on the author by Manning Clark. Macmillan, Melbourne, 1973.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
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- Title
- NUNS IN JEOPARDY.
- Author
- Boyd, Martin (1893-1972)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in illustrated wrappers (remainder line and toning to the pages, but a tight copy, appears unread)
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156678209
- ISBN 13
- 9780156678209
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1974)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australia and New Zealand;
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