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The Tranquil Ark (FINE COPY OF SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
by Vassie, Stewart
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1857766202
- ISBN 13
- 9781857766202
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Lewes, East Sussex: Book Guild, 2001. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front paste-down. Inscription reads, 'To ---- with a great many/thanks for all your help./Stewart Vassie/Feb 2005'. When the Reverend Lionel Hartwell retires as Administrator of St Margaret's Comity, a charitable sheltered-housing development not far from Salisbury, the residents lives are turned upside-down by his successor - a young radical who insults each resident in turn. A fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First edition, First Printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16262
- Title
- The Tranquil Ark (FINE COPY OF SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
- Author
- Vassie, Stewart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1857766202
- ISBN 13
- 9781857766202
- Publisher
- Book Guild
- Place of Publication
- Lewes, East Sussex
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Fiction. Modern First Edition. Sheltered Housing In Fiction. Old People In Fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Edition; Fiction;
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About the Seller
Greystone Books
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Margate
About Greystone Books
Greystone Books is situated in Kent, England. We have been selling on the internet since 1999. We sell collectable books and try to stock obscure and scare non-fiction titles.
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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