An Acceptable Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374300275
- ISBN 13
- 9780374300272
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Farrar Straus & Giroux. Hardcover. Good. CR 1989 Stated First Edition. Good-Very Good Hardcover in a Good-Very Good Dustjacket. Maroon cloth boards. Light edge and corner wear. Interior is good. No writing. Tiny crack in binding after the half-title page (perfect bound spine), light rust marks on the foredge. DJ is price-clipped, light edge wear, spine a touch sunned, panels a bit rubbed.
Synopsis
An Acceptable Time is a 1989 young adult science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the last of her books to feature Polyhymnia O'Keefe, better known as Poly or Polly (A House Like a Lotus, An Acceptable Time),. Marketed as part of the author's Time Quintet (the other four volumes of which are called the Time Quartet), An Acceptable Time connects Polly's adventures with those of her parents, Meg Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe, which take place a generation earlier.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ian S. Munro (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011463
- Title
- An Acceptable Time
- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374300275
- ISBN 13
- 9780374300272
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Children, Juvenile, fiction, science fiction, fantasy
Terms of Sale
Ian S. Munro
All Prices in US Funds. Mail order only. I do not deal with the public. U.S. parcels mailed from Niagara Falls, NY every second day. Canadian orders via Canada Post. I may request higher shipping charge to cover cost of heavier books or large sets. I am now semi-retired and in no particular rush.
About the Seller
Ian S. Munro
Biblio member since 2001
Toronto, Ontario
About Ian S. Munro
Children and Juvenile Books in all catagories
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