A WISE CHILD
by Hughes, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
-
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Constable. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover has minimal wear, slight corner/spine edge bumping & wear, slight soiling outer edge of pages. Interior clean & tight, partial price sticker on endpage, all very clean. DJ has light edge and corner wear, slight soiling, not price clipped. 318 pages. 8vo. First edition of the author's first book. "Casta McInnes is an outsider in her own family of cheerful, competent, intelligent people. Frank McInnes, a lecturer at Oxford has married again after his first wife died at Casta's birth. In an atmosphere of unconscious neglect, Casta's chances of growing up normally seem hopeless until an unlikely saviour figure for the child, Crayne, a former friend and pupil of McInnes, reappears on the scene and takes an active interest in here welfare....Her innocent love for him deepens, and his own feeling for her gradually changes from paternal to physical love..."; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- Riverwood's Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1282
- Title
- A WISE CHILD
- Author
- Hughes, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Romance; Fiction - Modern Lit; Collectible - 1st Edition/Modern;
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About Riverwood's Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Price Clipped
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