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The Street of Seven Stars
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gunnislake, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell, 1920. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Pages tanned, cover a little worn and rubbed, a reasonable copy..
Synopsis
From the book:The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had een a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Maria Theresa had used the building as a hunting-lodge, and undoubtedly there was something royal in the proportions of the salon. With all the candles lighted in the great glass chandelier, and no sidelights, so that the broken paneling was mercifully obscured by gloom, it was easy to believe that the great empress herself had sat in one of the tall old chairs and listened to anecdotes of questionable character; even, if tradition may be believed, related not a few herself. The chandelier was not lighted on this rainy November night. Outside in the garden the trees creaked and bent before the wind, and the heavy barred gate, left open by the last comer, a piano student named Scatchett and dubbed "Scatch" - the gate slammed to and fro monotonously, giving now and then just enough pause for a hope that it had latched itself, a hope that was always destroyed by the next gust. One candle burned in the salon. Originally lighted for the purpose of enabling Miss Scatchett to locate the score of a Tschaikowsky concerto, it had been moved to the small center table, and had served to give light if not festivity to the afternoon coffee and cakes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nigel Smith Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19072232-177
- Title
- The Street of Seven Stars
- Author
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Date Published
- 1920
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nigel Smith Books
Biblio member since 2005
Gunnislake, Cornwall
About Nigel Smith Books
Internet mail order business only. I carry a general stock of books, especially Devon and Cornwall, some of which is not yet online.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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