Pray for a Brave Heart
by MacINNES, Helen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Collins. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. A 1955 UK edition of Helen MacInnes's ninth novel. Set in Bern, Switzerland, this is the story of Bill Denning who, posing as an American tourist, becomes involved in a possible large diamond heist. Per the jacket flap, characters in the story are exposed to danger, when "Into this brooding atmosphere of fear, suspicion and mounting danger comes sudden death." --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in jacket with color image of an apparent assault in old town Bern to front panel. --- With some foxing to textblock edges, and with acidic stains to endpapers, else a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and with some tape-repaired tears; wrapped in old-style clear protector.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; 256 pages .
Synopsis
A suspense novel that reaches its climaz in a peaceful Swiss village where the fabulous Herz diamonds and the fight for men's minds are fatefully linked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86613
- Title
- Pray for a Brave Heart
- Author
- MacINNES, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
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Littleton, Colorado
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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...
- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...