Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
by SPARK, Muriel
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hadleigh, Essex: Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; xiv,235,[1]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with a few tiny tears, some dustiness to rear panel, and a faint splash mark to spine panel. Spark's first book published under her own name, a critical work on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley focussing both on her life, as well as her "neglected capacity as a writer" (from front flap).
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53562
- Title
- Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author
- SPARK, Muriel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tower Bridge Publications Limited
- Place of Publication
- Hadleigh, Essex
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- 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....
- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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