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The Street of Seven Stars
by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, good copy, no jacket, some wear, discoloration and soil to covers, contents good, general light tanning and quite a number of pages have scattered small spots and stains.
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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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H30481
- Title
- The Street of Seven Stars
- Author
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1914
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