The Slow Awakening
by Marchant, Catherine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0434450316
- ISBN 13
- 9780434450312
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434450316 . Signed by Author; DJ and boards show light shelf wear, jacket chipped at extremities. ; Inscribed by the author, tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 282 pages; "In the mid-1850s, life for an orphan was grim, as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died suddenly on a journey to Northumberland, leaving her penniless and alone in the hands of a cruel farmer. Somehow, Kirsten survived her terrible childhood, only to be sold, at the age of fourteen, to a traveling tinker, a vicious man who raped her and held her captive until the fateful day they were separated during a storm. Rescued from the flood by the Flynn family, she gave birth to a child as the waters raged about her. At the same time, Florence, mistress of the great house nearby, was told that her newborn son was dead. The two women entered into a secret bargain, an arrangement that was to change Kirsten's fortune and place her in the middle of a bitter feud between two families." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19333
- Title
- The Slow Awakening
- Author
- Marchant, Catherine
- Illustrator
- Jacket art by John Rose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0434450316
- ISBN 13
- 9780434450312
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0434450316, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Fiction; Fiction; Fiction / Historical;
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Shelf Wear
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- Inscribed
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