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The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Complete number line. Hardcover in Fine condition with a owner's bookplate on front pastedown and tanning to pages. Unclipped dust jacket has a small tear at lower front hinge and a couple of smaller tears near the other hinge corners. Dustjacket is otherwise is in excellent condition.
Synopsis
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author. In 1983 it was adapted as a television mini-series that, during its television run March 27-30, became the United States' second highest rating mini-series of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by television veteran David L. Wolper. The mini-series starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, Philip Anglim, and Jean Simmons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3591
- Title
- The Thorn Birds
- Author
- Colleen McCullough
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 560 pages
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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