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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1931. Undetermined. very good. 1st Canadian Edition. 324pp. Octavo. Publisher's orange cloth with titles in yellow to spine and front board. Very light shelfwear to boards. Spine lettering a touch faded. Top edge died yellow. Ornate school prize bookplate to ffep, dated 1933. Internally tight and clean. very good First Canadian edition, released simultaneously with the Stokes edition in the United States. The Canadian edition was published with a distinctive coloured upper textblock edge, which Stokes later adopted. A superior copy of this title. Lechowick P 101. Russell 520. 1931
Synopsis
A Tangled Web is a novel by L. M. Montgomery. It is one of the few books she published that was written mainly for adults. It centers around a community consisting mainly of two families, the Penhallows and the Darks. For several generations everyone in the Penhallow family has married someone in the Dark family. Aunt Becky has died and in her will left a prized family heirloom to a person to be disclosed in one year's time.
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132652
- Title
- A Tangled Web
- Author
- Montgomery, L.M
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Anne of Green Gables|Canadian Author|Fiction|L.M. Montgomery
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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