Quartet
by Harwood, Ronald
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0571302793
- ISBN 13
- 9780571302796
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2012.* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing the inmates of the retirement home. No bumps or rubs, no reading creases to spine. Minimal shelf wear to spine edges, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. Minimal age to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 83 pp. text. ix pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In a home for retired musicians, live opera singers Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred. Each year there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. When Jean, the one-time bride of Reggie, moves in she disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on. This is presented as a screen play and was made into a movie in 2008.* This is a NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st./1st. FNL. with minimal age and wear reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9374
- Title
- Quartet
- Author
- Harwood, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0571302793
- ISBN 13
- 9780571302796
- Publisher
- TWC.
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 92
- Date Published
- 2012-01-01
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